pelf : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pelf	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pelf
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pelf n informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
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. [bd]Mucky pelf.[b8] --Spenser. [bd]Paltry pelf.[b8] --Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? --Fuller.