gombeen


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gombeen /gɒmˈbiːn/
noun [as modifier] Irish involved in the practice of usury: a gombeen man.
– origin C19: from Ir. gaimbín, perh. from the same Celtic source as med. L. cambire ‘to change’.
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