gold-finder
gold-finder noun: a prospector for gold.
Noun
gold-finder (plural gold-finders)
- A prospector for gold.
- A person who cleans the latrines.
- Divers Gentlemen walking the ſtreets ſomewhat late where the Goldfinders were at worke, fie fellowes ſay they, what a beaſtly ſtinke doe yee make? To whom one of the moſt ancient amongſt them replyed; If gentlemen, you or ſuch as you would keepe your tailes ſtopped, you ſhould not now need to ſtop...1633, A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, page 29
- But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I
Forms of gold-finder
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Questions about gold-finder
- What does gold-finder mean?
- Gold-finder means a prospector for gold.
- What part of speech is gold-finder?
- Gold-finder is a noun.
- What is the plural of gold-finder?
- The plural of gold-finder is gold-finders.
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