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goldbug

goldbug is the alternative form of gold bug.

Meaning of gold bug

Noun

gold bug (plural gold bugs)

  1. (informal) A person with a particularly great enthusiasm for investing in gold (the metal).
    • The swing in equities scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while.
  2. (informal) A person who is opposed to fiat currency and supports a return to the gold standard.
    • The swing in inflation scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while.
  3. (informal) A person who collects gold items.
    • If you see the decorating style in his living room, you'll know that he's a gold bug.
  4. (informal) A particularly great enthusiasm for gold — whether as an investment, a hoard, a collectible, or otherwise — portrayed figuratively as an arthropod that bites people and infects them, causing a mental illness.
    • bitten by the gold bug

Forms of goldbug

pluralgoldbugs

Questions about goldbug

What is goldbug the alternative form of?
Goldbug is the alternative form of gold bug.

Words near goldbug in the dictionary

  1. goldbricked
  2. goldbricker
  3. goldbrickers
  4. goldbricking
  5. goldbricks
  6. goldbug
  7. goldbugs
  8. goldcraft
  9. goldcrest
  10. goldcrests
  11. goldcup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goldbug (page history and authors); gold bug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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