hoarder

English

Etymology

From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹdɚ/, /ˈhoɹdɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːdə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: hoard‧er

Noun

hoarder (plural hoarders)

1. One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.

   Synonym: pack rat

   Coordinate term: declutterer

   • 1917 March 17, “Bill to Demonetize Gold”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     A bill to demonetize existing French gold coinage has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies by Deputies Lenoir, Bouffandeau, and Eymond. The purpose is to force hoarders to bring out gold estimated at 4,000,000,000 francs which is still kept in hiding in spite of patriotic appeals to the owners to exchange it for notes.

   • 2017, Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 6:

     Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.

Derived terms

• compulsive hoarder

Related terms

• hoardy

Translations

one who hoards

• Catalan: acaparador m, acaparadora f
• Dutch: verzamelaar (nl)
• Esperanto: kolektanto
• Finnish: rohmu (fi) (pejorative), hamstraaja (fi)
• French: collectionneur (fr)
• German: Messie (de) m (compulsive, pathological)
• Hebrew: אוגר (he) m (oger)
• Italian: incettatore m, accaparratore m, accaparratrice f
• Latin: accumulātor m
• Maori: makitaunu, kaiwhakapūranga
• Norman: ragdaleux m, ragoteux m
• Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m
• Russian: скопидом (ru) m (skopidom), плюшкин m (pljuškin)
• Spanish: acumulador (es) m, acumulador compulsivo m, afecto del síndrome de Diógenes m
• Welsh: celciwr m, casglwr (cy) m

Anagrams

• hard roe