gold digger
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6.1
- noun
- /ɡoʊld ˈdɪɡər/
- Slur
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- After the breakup, he realized that she was just a gold digger who wanted his wealth.
- called a gold digger
- just a gold digger
- a gold digger is a woman
But you might, as much as there's gold digger females, there's gold digger guys too.
- But you might, as much as there's gold digger females, there's gold digger guys too.
- Imagine me going She ain't nothing but a gold digger.
- OK, this first one is titled Am I the asshole for telling my husband's kids how broke he was when we met after they insinuated I was a gold digger?
Examples
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A lot of men are stupid or just don't care about the gold diggers as long as they have arm candy.
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I'd say she was a gold digger, but now she can be stopped legally.
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Nothing new about gold diggers, though there do seem to be more of them these days.
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I hope the judge will be reasonable and not let this gold-digger get away with more than she should.
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What do you expect from a gold-digger?
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My grandma was one of those women who was accused of being a gold digger.
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Women were described as "gold diggers," who get pregnant for wealthy rappers to secure and/or elevate their financial standing.
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Men think all women are gold diggers who manipulate men's desire for sex to get access to men's wallets.
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She only dates wealthy men because she is a gold digger looking for financial security.
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Many people warned him that his new girlfriend might be a gold digger interested in his money.
Synonyms
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9.9
A woman who has sex with rich or powerful men for money, often in high society in the past
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A woman who a lover pays for, often when he is married to someone else
How Materialistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'gold' (something valuable) with 'digger' (one who seeks or extracts), so a B1 learner could plausibly infer a person who seeks wealth, making part of the meaning predictable. However, the specific idiomatic sense — a (usually pejorative) woman who forms relationships primarily for money — and its gendered, social nuance are culturally specific and not fully derivable from the parts (and the phrase can also be read literally as a prospector), so full comprehension requires exposure.
Etymology
The phrase gold digger uses the picture of someone hunting for gold and changes it into a person hunting for money. So it now means 'a woman who forms a relationship mainly to get money or gifts'.