fortune-hunter

See also: fortune hunter

English

Noun

fortune-hunter (plural fortune-hunters)

  1. Alternative form of fortune hunter.
    • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 5, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
      "There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter, and I can see no reason why fortune-hunting women should not be contemptible too."
    • c. 1802, Maria Edgeworth, “Almeria”, in Tales and Novels, volume V, From:
      [H]e did not know of what use money could be to a woman, except to make her a prey to a fortune-hunter.
    • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in Barnaby Rudge:
      "The stock-exchange, the pulpit, the counting-house, the royal drawing-room, the senate,—what but fortune-hunters are they filled with?"
    • 1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 5, in Uneasy Money:
      She pictured him as a crafty adventurer, a wretched fortune-hunter.
    • 1980, Lynna Cooper, chapter 12, in Portrait of Love, Signet Books, page 117:
      She had to do something to convince him that he could marry her even if she was a wealthy woman, Cherie decided. Why couldn’t the guy be a fortune-hunter? What was so wrong with that? Ha! She probably wouldn’t love him if he were. Life gets mighty complicated sometimes, she reflected wryly.
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