gombeen

gombeen |gɒmˈbiːn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] [ as modifier ] Irish involved in the lending of money at unreasonably high interest rates: a gombeen man. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Irish gaimbín, perhaps from the same Celtic source as medieval Latin cambire ‘to change ’.

gombeen

gombeen |gɒmˈbiːn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] [ as modifier ] Irish involved in the lending of money at unreasonably high interest rates: a gombeen man. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Irish gaimbín, perhaps from the same Celtic source as medieval Latin cambire ‘to change ’.