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hoardful

adj

Etymology

From hoard + -ful.

  1. derived from *hurdi✻ — “wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”
  2. derived from *hurd✻
  3. derived from horde
  4. derived from hourd
  5. derived from hurde
  6. inherited from hord
  7. suffixed as hoardful — “hoard + ful”

Definitions

  1. Tending to hoard things

    Tending to hoard things; miserly.

    • He was a competent lawyer, and he was rich, and neither overly greedy nor overly hoardful, which was true of all Heaths.
    • I used to be a teacher Of knowledge I was a giver, not hoardful keeper

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