gold-finder

Noun

gold-finder (plural gold-finders)

1. A prospector for gold.
2. (slang, humorous) A person who cleans the latrines.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292, book VI:

     But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;