gold digger

English

Etymology

gold +‎ digger. Literal sense from 1830s, figurative sense (woman who seeks money in a relationship) from 1915.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡəʊld ˈdɪɡə(ɹ)/

Noun

gold digger (plural gold diggers)

1. Someone who digs or mines for gold.
2. (pejorative) A person (usually female and considerably younger) who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain money.

Translations

someone who digs or mines for gold

• Danish: guldgraver (da) c
• Finnish: kullankaivaja (fi)
• French: chercheur d'or (fr)

• German: Goldgräber (de) m
• Spanish: excavador de oro (es), excavadora de oro (es) f

person who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain money and/or material goods, power

• Danish: golddigger (da) c
• Serbo-Croatian: спонзоруша (sh) (sponzoruša)

• Slovak: zlatokopka (sk) f