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Meaning of hoardy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Tending to hoard; grasping.

Examples

“An employer dipping his hoardy hands into the pay packets of workers doesn't ever expect an applause.”
“I'm not a secretive, hoardy kind of person.”
“I hadn't wanted glass until George did; then I collected glass. I got hoardy, didn't want to give him the best pieces, though he's the one who knew to see them as beautiful.”
“We were with P.T. and Charles but then they have to go do something or meet up with someone, so we're inside and she comes up and we talk a little but Zhad's there and being all hoardy of me, and she has to go off, so I think I wished her luck and, that was it, like didn't talk to her again, except maybe briefly in a large group again at the field.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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