moneybag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a bag or pouch used to hold or carry money

   Huck hid the moneybag beneath the coffin lid.

2. 2
   noun

   moneybags, informal and disparaging: a wealthy person

   The local moneybags bought the largest house in town.

A compound of money + bag. The literal container is old; the plural moneybags later became a mocking personification of wealth and then a term for a rich person.

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