loanmonger

English

Etymology

loan +‎ monger

Noun

loanmonger (plural loanmongers)

1. A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
   • 1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke‎^[1], Book III, Chapter 10:

     Teach us that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty. Teach us that taste is a talisman which can do greater wonders than the millions of the loanmonger.

   • 1937, H. G. Wells, Star-Begotten‎^[2], Chapter 6, §4:

     The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers.

References

• “loanmonger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.