Talk:adventurer

RFC discussion: December 2016–November 2020
Sense "A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences." WTF does that mean? Who speaks like that nowadays anyway? --Derrib9 (talk) 02:22, 27 December 2016 (UTC)


 * The wording has since been improved. I wasn't familiar with this sense, but it roughly tracks with one of OED's definitions: "A person who looks for chances of personal advancement, esp. one willing to take risks or use dishonest methods to attain it; one who lives by his or her wits." Could definitely use a quotation or two. This is one of the OED's and it's quite clear. The last paragraph here also looks promising. Colin M (talk) 10:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)


 * In old novels an "adventuress" is usually what we would today call a "gold-digger", i.e. an unscrupulous woman trying to marry into money or similar. Equinox ◑ 13:20, 21 November 2020 (UTC)