What does PELF mean?
Definitions for PELF
pɛlfpelf
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Princeton's WordNet
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampumnoun
informal terms for money
Wiktionary
pelfnoun
money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (cf. lucre)
Etymology: Old French pelfre, "booty, stolen goods." It is related to pilfer.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Pelfnoun
Money; riches.
Etymology: In low Latin, pelfra, not known whence derived; peuffe, in Norman, is frippery.
The thought of this doth pass all worldly pelf. Philip Sidney.
Hardy elf,
Thou darest view my direful countenance,
I read thee rash and heedless of thyself,
To trouble my still seat and heaps of precious pelf. Fairy Queen.Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but myself. William Shakespeare.He call’d his money in;
But the prevailing love of pelf
Soon split him on the former shelf:
He put it out again. John Dryden, Horace.To the poor if he refus’d his pelf,
He us’d them full as kindly as himself. Jonathan Swift.
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pelf
Pelf refers to wealth or money, especially when acquired in a dishonest or dishonorable way. It usually implies greed or ill-gotten gains.
Webster Dictionary
Pelfnoun
money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural
Etymology: [OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to pelfrer to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. Pilfer.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pelf
pelf, n. riches (in a bad sense): money. [O. Fr. pelfre, booty; allied to pilfer.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of PELF in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of PELF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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