money bag

See also: moneybag

English

Alternative forms

• moneybag

Noun

money bag (plural money bags)

1. A bag, normally with a drawstring, used for holding money.
2. (in the plural) A wealthy person.
   • 1820, John Keats, Isabell; or, The Pot of Basil, section XVIII:

     How could these money-bags see east and west?—
     Yet so they did—and every dealer fair
     Must see behind, as doth the hunted hare.

Derived terms

• witch's moneybags

Translations

bag used for holding money

• Bulgarian: кесия (bg) f (kesija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錢袋／钱袋 (zh) (qiándài), 錢袋子／钱袋子 (qiándàizi)

• Finnish: rahasäkki, rahapussi (fi)
• Galician: correo (gl) m (archaic), taleigo m (dated), peto m, faldriqueira (gl) f
• German: Geldsack (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: mála airgid m
• Latin: pasceolus m
• Malayalam: പണക്കിഴി (ml) (paṇakkiḻi)
• Maori: pēke moni
• Polish: sakwa (pl) f, sakiewka (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: talega
• Vietnamese: túi tiền (vi)

wealthy person

• Bulgarian: богаташ (bg) m (bogataš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 富翁 (zh) (fùwēng)

• Finnish: kroisos (fi)
• French: richard (fr) m
• German: Geldsack (de) m, Pfeffersack m (obsolete)
• Hungarian: pénzeszsák (hu)
• Japanese: 金持ち (ja) (かねもち, kanemochi)
• Portuguese: ricaço (pt) m, ricaça f

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: ^{(please verify)} πουγκί (el) n (pougkí)

Further reading

• Category:Moneybags on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• bogey man, bogeyman