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hoarder

noun
/ˈhɔɹdɚ/US/ˈhɔːdə/UK

Etymology

From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.

  1. inherited from hordere — “a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”
  2. inherited from horder

Definitions

  1. One who hoards

    One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.

    • Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA