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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The word “money-grubber†may be an English rendition of a dialectical Dutch word for an avaricious person, captured from the Dutch (as so many other English words were) in the seventeenth or eighteenth century.
A writer, name unknown, has recently suggested that “money-grabber†might be an eggcorn. I think he/she may be right. The expressions “money-grabbing†and “money grabber†occur frequently on the web. Some of them may be legitimate collocations of “money†and “grab,†but many of the instances depend, surely, on the prior existence of the “money grubber†idiom.
Examples:
Title on a blog post: “Corrupt sports organisations run by money grabbing wankersâ€
Post on a sports board: “Also to call him a Money grabbing whore is a little too extreme.â€
Article in an online version of a UK newspaper: “The animal rights campaigner said she was no money grabber saying ‘80 per cent of my money goes to charity’.â€
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Fits the eggcorn profile. I couldn’t find much to complement this post, except perhaps for “money rubbing” (typo? what typo?). The trouble with the legitimacy of “money rubbing” in turn is that there’s this ritual evident on the web, wherein people enjoy their winnings by rubbing themselves with the cash. And the other universal gesture, of rubbing your thumb and fingers together to indicate lucre.
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Jay-Z is a money rubbing mainstream contributor and non-musical business man
(http://www.musikizme.com/money-cash-hoe … -z-ft-dmx/)
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