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Greenhead vs Greedhead - What's the difference?

greenhead | greedhead |

As nouns the difference between greenhead and greedhead

is that greenhead is tabanus nigrovittatus , a biting horsefly while greedhead is (informal) an avaricious person.

greenhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Tabanus nigrovittatus , a biting horsefly.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 12, author=Pam Belluck, title=Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers. }}
  • The mallard.
  • A fish, the striped bass.
    • (Webster 1913)

    greedhead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An avaricious person.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 29, author=David Olive, title=Summiteers in rare unity on crisis, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=And the reckless greedheads at this tiny 400-person London outpost of the New York-based AIG were recently paid $165 million (U.S.) in bonuses for their massive incompetence in guaranteeing against default hundreds of billions of debt that did go bad. }}