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    [pelf]
    noun
    archaic
    pelf (noun)
    1. money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way:
      "damnation dog thee and thy wretched pelf!"
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the sense ‘booty, pilfered property’): from a variant of Anglo-Norman French pelfre ‘spoils’ (see pilfer).
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    noun
    1. money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way:
      cash
      hard cash
      ready money
      funds
      capital
      finances
      banknotes
      notes
      paper money
      coins
      change
      coin
      coinage
      silver
      copper
      currency
      legal tender
      sterling
      bills
      roll
      dough
      bread
      loot
      shekels
      moolah
      wad
      boodle
      dibs
      gelt
      ducats
      rhino
      gravy
      scratch
      stuff
      oof
      folding money
      brass
      lolly
      readies
      dinero
      greenbacks
      simoleons
      bucks
      jack
      mazuma
      Oscar
      splosh
      green
      tin
      kale
      rocks
      shinplasters
      specie
      the means
      the wherewithal
      (filthy) lucre
      the necessary
      dosh
      spondulicks
      wonga
      ackers
      the ready
      l.s.d.
     
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    Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin pelfra, pelfa, probably from Old French pelfre; see pilfer.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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    What is another word for pelf?
    Ill-gotten gains; booty. Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired. Money or wealth regarded with contempt. Old French pelfre, "booty, stolen goods." It is related to pilfer. Find similar words to pelf using the buttons below. Pelf definition: Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired.

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    What does pelfra mean?
    Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin pelfra, pelfa, probably from Old French pelfre; see pilfer.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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    Is Pelf a French word?
    The English word is perhaps related to Late Latin pelfa, pelfra, pelfrum (“forfeited or stolen goods”), Middle French peuffe and French peufe, peuffe (“old clothes; rubbish”) (Normandy), and pilfer. pelf (countable and uncountable, plural pelfs)

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    What does pelff mean?
    The olde worne pelff [sc. Diane of Poictiers] fearing ther by to lefe some parte of her credite. Pelse, a bad, or good-for-nothing person. Pelf, a term bestowed on a worthless person. 4.b. † Junk, trash, rubbish; frippery. Obsolete. Forked caps, tipets, shauen crounes, or such other baggage & Antichristian pelfe.

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    What does pelfe mean?
    4.d. Refuse, detritus; (British regional) spec. plant refuse, weeds. Pelfe is properly the scrappes or shreds of taylors and of skinners. We of all people once that were the pelfe,..Almightie Ioue hath chosen to himselfe. Our memories are as..nets that keep the pelf, let go the clean water.

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    Why do we need a Pelf?
    More self-employment and higher consumption taxes essentially, not the capitalist plutocrats running away with all the pelf. That the rich can earn from their investments, continue to pile up the pelf and thus maintain their social status. For efficiency we rather require that people be motivated by that pelf and gilt. Pelf definition: .

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