Crossword clues for grabby
grabby
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, from grab (v.) + -y (2). Related: Grabbiness.
Wiktionary
a. tending to grab especially rudely or needily
WordNet
adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
Usage examples of "grabby".
I was being systematically depersonalized by the whole educational apparatus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and all I heard from my parents day after day in letters, phone calls and telegrams was that I should transfer to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which they wanted me to do for their own selfish grabby reasons, probably tinged with incest.