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In some senses, gold-finder is marked as slang, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADV.
properly
noun
A prospector for gold.
A person who cleans the latrines.
Divers Gentlemen walking the ſtreets ſomewhat late where the Goldfinders were at worke, fie fellowes ſay they, what a beaſtly ſtinke doe yee make? To whom one of the moſt ancient amongſt them replyed; If gentlemen, you or ſuch as you would keepe your tailes ſtopped, you ſhould not now need to ſtop your noſes.
But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;
Divers Gentlemen walking the ſtreets ſomewhat late where the Goldfinders were at worke, fie fellowes ſay they, what a beaſtly ſtinke doe yee make? To whom one of the moſt ancient amongſt them replyed;
WiktionaryBut though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;
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In some senses, gold-finder is marked as slang, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.