greed1 (gred)

[ Greek 2. Having a keen desire for anything; eager to obtain; of a covetous or avaricious disposition; impatiently desirous: as, greedy of gain. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1758. Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre. 1 Tim. iii. 3. The se that gredy is to flowen. You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage. Shak., Rich. II., v. 2. Hee is greedy of great acquaintance and many, and thinkes it no small a duan cement to rise to bee knowne. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Forward Bold Man. The greedy sight might there devour the gold Of glittering arms, too dazzling to behold. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 450. =Syn. Insatiate, insatiable, rapacious, gluttonous. greedy-gut, greedy-guts (gre'di-gut, -guts), n. A greedy person; a glutton; a belly-god. [Vulgar.] Whence comes it, that so little Fresh water, fodder, meat, and other victuall, Should serve so long so many a greedy - gut ? Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas. With a foolhardy man go thou not in the waie, lest per auenture gregge his eueles in thee. Wyclif , Ecclus. viii. 8.