Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish^. greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid^, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

With the morbid contrariness of the human imagination, the boy's avid grasping gave him no comfort.

But after the first half-hour of eager grasping, one becomes fastidious, rather scorns those on which the wasps and flies have alighted, and seeks only the stainless.