Old English gr?dig (West Saxon), gredig (Anglian) "voracious, hungry," also "covetous, eager to obtain," from Proto-Germanic *gr?dagaz (cognates: Old Saxon gradag "greedy," Old Norse graer "greed, hunger," Danish graadig, Dutch gretig, Old High German gratag "greedy," Gothic gredags "hungry"), from *gr?duz (cognates: Gothic gredus "hunger," Old English gr?dum "eagerly"), possibly from PIE root *gher- (5) "to like, want" (source of Sanskrit grdh "to be greedy").
In Greek, the word was philargyros, literally "money-loving." A German word for it is habsüchtig, from haben "to have" + sucht "sickness, disease," with sense tending toward "passion for."
雙語例句
1. Edith was seen as a conniving, greedy woman.
人們認為伊迪絲是一個詭計多端的貪婪女人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You greedy pig! You've already had two helpings!
你這個饞嘴！你已經(jīng)吃了兩份了！
來自《權威詞典》
3. The greedy boss stopped at nothing to gain profit.