gold-digger

gold-digger
   1. obsolete
   a person employed to remove human excrement
   Sardonic humour, as with honey. Also known as a gold-finder; in America a goldbrick was a turd.
   2. a woman who consorts with a man because he is rich
   Working a single, but often exhausted, vein, a large difference in age being a usual feature:
    If she was a gold-digger, a common accusation in these cases, picking a man with eight children... was not an obvious choice. (Forster, 1997 — the master of the house was 46 and the servant he married was 24)
   This [case] was never about a gold digger seeking money. (Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2000 — as the former stripper was 26 years old and the man owning a fortune of $1.6 billion was 89, it was clearly love at last sight)

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