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pelf
(encz) | pelf,mamon n: Zdeněk Brož |
Pelf
(gcide) | Pelf \Pelf\ (p[e^]lf), 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.
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Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry?
--Fuller.
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pelf
(wn) | pelf
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] |
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pelf
(encz) | pelf,mamon n: Zdeněk Brož |
Pelfish
(gcide) | Pelfish \Pelf"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to pelf. --Stanyhurst.
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Pelfray
(gcide) | Pelfray \Pel"fray\, Pelfry \Pel"fry\, n.
Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] --Cranmer.
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Pelfry
(gcide) | Pelfray \Pel"fray\, Pelfry \Pel"fry\, n.
Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] --Cranmer.
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pelf
(wn) | pelf
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] |
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