gombeen 的定义
Irish English.
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- Gombeen man; a usurer who lends money to small farmers and others of like means, at ruinous interest.
- For the name of this grisly and terribly real spectre is gombeen; which, in the Irish tongue, signifies usury.
- This poor innocent was charging just 60 per cent., but his terms were lavishly liberal as compared with those of the gombeen man.
- At Burtonport we found the “Gombeen man,” of Dungloe, represented by a very large “store.”
- The priest and the “Gombeen man” deal with them on the old principle of “freedom of contract.”