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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Pelf \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.
[1913 Webster]
Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry?
--Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Pelf \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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
pelf
n : informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly,
lucre, loot, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum]
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pelf
Αγγλικά n.
1 τα φράγκα, το χρήμα, τα λεφτά
2 το μαύρο χρήμα, το βρόμικο χρήμα
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pelf
n.
1 (lb en uncountable chiefly derogatory dated) money, riches;
gain#Noun, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
2 (lb en uncountable dated) rubbish#Noun, trash#Noun; specifically
(lb en Britain dialectal) refuse#Noun from plant#Noun.
3 (lb en uncountable southwest Southwest England) dust#Noun;
fluff#Noun.
4 (lb en countable Yorkshire derogatory) A contemptible or useless
person.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
pelf
n.
1 (lb en uncountable chiefly derogatory dated) money, riches;
gain#Noun, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
2 (lb en uncountable dated) rubbish#Noun, trash#Noun; specifically
(lb en Britain dialectal) refuse#Noun from plant#Noun.
3 (lb en uncountable southwest Southwest England) dust#Noun;
fluff#Noun.
4 (lb en countable Yorkshire derogatory) A contemptible or useless
person.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
pelf
n.
1 (lb en uncountable chiefly derogatory dated) money, riches;
gain#Noun, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
2 (lb en uncountable dated) rubbish#Noun, trash#Noun; specifically
(lb en Britain dialectal) refuse#Noun from plant#Noun.
3 (lb en uncountable southwest Southwest England) dust#Noun;
fluff#Noun.
4 (lb en countable Yorkshire derogatory) A contemptible or useless
person.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
pelf
n.
1 (lb en uncountable chiefly derogatory dated) money, riches;
gain#Noun, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
2 (lb en uncountable dated) rubbish#Noun, trash#Noun; specifically
(lb en Britain dialectal) refuse#Noun from plant#Noun.
3 (lb en uncountable southwest Southwest England) dust#Noun;
fluff#Noun.
4 (lb en countable Yorkshire derogatory) A contemptible or useless
person.
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
pelf /pˈɛlf/
mamon
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
pelf /pˈɛlf/
1. para, servet, vurgunla kazanılan servet.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
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
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
n.金钱；财物(轻蔑语)
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 钱财
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