gombeen

/ษกษ’mหˆbiหn/

IPA: /G AA1 M B IY0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    Usury.

  2. 2

    A moneylender during the Great Famine.

  3. 3

    A mean, underhanded, corrupt person. Usually applied to politicians.

adjective
  1. 1

    Corrupt, underhanded.

    โ€œThey were talking gombeen politics.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gombeen