hoardful

English

Etymology

hoard +‎ -ful

Adjective

hoardful (comparative more hoardful, superlative most hoardful)

1. Tending to hoard things; miserly.
   • 2004, Neil Rolde, Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians, page 293:

     The white supreme non-Indian has showed his lesson well Of how he saved the Penobscot [River], by polluting it to hell With the hoardful Great Northern, snatching Indian property And the lily white scummed tanneries, pumping colors in the sea.

   • 2007, Ellen Cooney, A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies, page 10:

     He was a competent lawyer, and he was rich, and neither overly greedy nor overly hoardful, which was true of all Heaths.

   • 2016, Allan M. Cross, The Whisperings of a Wandering Soul, page 70:

     I used to be a teacher Of knowledge I was a giver, not hoardful keeper