About The Word Pelf

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Pelf

Pelf Meaning & Definition
Pelf Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pelf?

[n] informal terms for money

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pelf: bread | cabbage | dinero | dough | gelt | kale | loot | lucre | moolah | shekels

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pelf: affluence | and pence | assets | bottomless purse | bulging purse | capital gains | cash | circulating medium | cleanup | clear profit | coinage | coined liberty | cold cash | currency | debris | dividends | dollars | earnings | easy circumstances | embarras de richesses | emergency money | filthy lucre | fortune | fractional currency | gain | gains | garbage | get | gettings | gleanings | gold | gross | gross profit | handsome fortune | hard cash | hard currency | high income | high tax bracket | hoard | income | independence | interest | junk | kelter | killing | legal tender | litter | lucre | luxuriousness | makings | mammon | managed currency | material wealth | mazuma | medium of exchange | mintage | money | money to burn | moneybags | moolah | neat profit | necessity money | needful | net | net profit | offal | ooftish | opulence | opulency | paper profits | percentage | perk | perks | perquisite | pickings | possessions | postage currency | postal currency | pounds | proceeds | profit | profits | property | prosperity | prosperousness | rake-off | receipts | return | returns | rhino | riches | richness | rubbish | scratch | scrip | shillings | silver | six-figure income | smash | soft currency | specie | sterling | store | stuff | stumpy | substance | take | take-in | the almighty dollar | the wherewith | the wherewithal | trash | treasure | upper bracket | waste | wealth | wealthiness | winnings

See Also | money

Pelf In Webster's Dictionary

\Pelf\, n. [OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to pelfrer to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. {Pilfer}.] Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. ``Mucky pelf.'' --Spenser. ``Paltry pelf.'' --Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? --Fuller.

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