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Pourcouˊntrel [Hieroglyphically]
Pourcouˊntrel [Hieroglyphically] was
used to express a covetous miser, that scrapes together the wealth of this
world: because it is a greedy fish that swallows all that comes next to it,
when it is hungry.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Pourcouˊntrel *
Preˊster