Pawnbroker
['pɔːnbrəʊkə] or ['pɔnbrokɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security.
Checker: Wade--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Checker: Rita
Unserious Contents or Definition
A mercenary man to whom money is the one redeeming quality.
Checked by Jacques
Examples
- Would you like to see the pawnbroker himself? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Nothing,' replied the woman; 'it was a pawnbroker's duplicate. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Pawnbroker's shop--duplicates here--small sums--mere nothing--all rascals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the corner, as if they were eternally going to the pawnbroker's. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We have at least an hour before us, he remarked, for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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