gold bug
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particularly great enthusiasm for gold — whether as an investment, a hoard, a collectible, or otherwise — portrayed figuratively as an arthropod that bites people and infects them, causing a mental illness.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The swing in equities scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while."
- "Still, crypto has been effectively marketed: It manages both to seem futuristic and to appeal to old-style goldbug fears that the government will inflate away your savings, and huge past gains have drawn in investors worried about missing out."
- "The swing in inflation scared him so much that he became a gold bug for a while."
- "If you see the decorating style in his living room, you'll know that he's a gold bug."
- "bitten by the gold bug"
- "He was bitten by the gold bug a long time ago, and some of the venom is still in his veins."