Pelf










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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
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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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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



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