pelf
Plural: pelfs
Noun
- Money or wealth, especially when ill-gotten or trivial.
- informal terms for money
- Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
- Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants.
- Dust; fluff.
- A contemptible or useless person.
Examples
- His opponent’s PELF of vowels allowed them to score an unexpectedly high amount.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Middle English pelf, pelfe (“stolen goods, booty, spoil; forfeited property; money, riches; property; valuable object”), possibly from Anglo-Norman pelf (a variant of pelfre (“booty, loot”)) and Old French peufre (“frippery; rubbish”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a metathesis of Old French felpe, ferpe, frepe (“a rag”). 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.
Synonyms
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, Bugs Bunny, absolute zero, accession, ackers, acquirement, acquisition, acquist, asswipe, attainment, badling, bees and honey, blatherskite, blunt, booty, brass, bread and honey, bugger, cake, carrion, cheddar, cheese, ching, cipher, cockstain, coin, crap, cream, crumb, cultch, currency, custron, dandiprat, debris, doink, dosh, dreck, drek, fang, fedi, feds, fellow, finances, flizz, flow, fritlag, funding, funds, gain, gaining, garbage, geek, gizzit, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gravy, gwolla, gwop, haul, hoon, hot property, jack, junk, legal tender, lidderon, litter, losel, loser, louse, lovely jubbly, maggot, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, ne'er-do-well, no-good, no-mark, nonce, nonentity, nowmun, obtainment, oof, ooftish, paper, pelf, pickings, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, pig dog, pile of crap, pile of shit, pillage, pissant, plunder, prigging, punk, puny, quat, ramp, refuse, rhino, rinky-dink, roly-poly, roughage, rubbish, sack, scrilla, scullion, service item, shit, shrapnel, slubberdegullion, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, sparrow-fart, spend, spoil, spoils, spondulicks, streak of piss, stuff, swag, toerag, trash, truant, twerp, underperson, unworthy, wankstain, waste, waste of space, wonga, yenom
Scrabble Score: 9
pelf: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpelf: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pelf: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary