"pelf" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /pɛlf/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-pelf.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pelfs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlf 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pelf}} Middle English pelf, {{m|enm|pelfe|t=stolen goods, booty, spoil; forfeited property; money, riches; property; valuable object}} pelfe (“stolen goods, booty, spoil; forfeited property; money, riches; property; valuable object”), {{der|en|xno|pelf}} Anglo-Norman pelf, {{m|xno|pelfre|t=booty, loot}} pelfre (“booty, loot”), {{der|en|fro|peufre|t=frippery; rubbish}} Old French peufre (“frippery; rubbish”), {{glossary|metathesis}} metathesis, {{der|en|fro|felpe}} Old French felpe, {{m|fro|ferpe}} ferpe, {{m|fro|frepe|t=a rag}} frepe (“a rag”), {{cog|LL.|pelfa}} Late Latin pelfa, {{m|LL.|pelfra}} pelfra, {{m|LL.|pelfrum|t=forfeited or stolen goods}} pelfrum (“forfeited or stolen goods”), {{cog|frm|peuffe}} Middle French peuffe, {{cog|fr|peufe}} French peufe, {{m|fr|peuffe|t=old clothes; rubbish}} peuffe (“old clothes; rubbish”), {{qualifier|Normandy}} (Normandy), {{m|en|pilfer}} pilfer Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pelf (countable and uncountable, plural pelfs)
  1. (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon. Tags: dated, derogatory, uncountable Categories (topical): Money Synonyms: acquisition, booty, money
    Sense id: en-pelf-en-noun-b8tBvB~r Disambiguation of Money: 51 9 31 8
  2. (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants. Tags: dated, uncountable Categories (topical): People Synonyms: trash
    Sense id: en-pelf-en-noun-J~XVJUPL Disambiguation of People: 38 50 11 0 Categories (other): British English
  3. (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-pelf-en-noun-gLrDxuSr Categories (other): English English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 17 38 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 14 51 10
  4. (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person. Tags: Yorkshire, countable, derogatory Synonyms: worthless person
    Sense id: en-pelf-en-noun-US3iIzMU Categories (other): Yorkshire English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pelfish [obsolete], pelfray, pelfry [obsolete] Related terms: pilfer [possibly]

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The inscriptions on the walls are homilies from the Koran—actual 'sermons in stones'. The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel.",
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          "text": "But, sighing after his fancies and visionary pursuits, he rebelled and fled fifty miles away for refuge from the lace caps and powdered wigs of his priggish sitters, and resumed his quaint dreams and immeasurable phantasies, never more to forsake them for pelf and portraiture.",
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          "ref": "1987 April 27, Ford S. Worthy, “You’re Probably Working Too Hard”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-01",
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          "text": "Every wised-up wit who mistakes knowingness for knowledge proclaims that Peter Mandelson is a gutless fixer; a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf. […] If only the idle stereotype were true.",
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          "ref": "2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Houellebecq seems to be saying that French society, in the form of its politicians, its journalists, its academics and not least its novelists, will get exactly what it deserves – a state run by those who believe in something bigger and grander than the pelf and perquisites of their elevated positions.",
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        {
          "ref": "1934, Dale Wimbrow, The Guy in the Glass",
          "text": "When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, and the world makes you King for a day, / Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, and see what that guy has to say.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968 October, Nicholas von Hoffman, “The Class of ’43 is Puzzled”, in Robert Manning, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-26",
          "text": "Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 April 27, Ford S. Worthy, “You’re Probably Working Too Hard”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-01",
          "text": "In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 July 20, Harriet P. Gross, “Author roots her stories in Vietnam War”, in The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex.: A. H. Belo Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC",
          "text": "She writes about those she might have known first-hand: teenage girls cowering in bunkers … friends making promises they can never keep … rich folk fattened on wartime pelf, poor folk surviving by wit alone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 February 20, Nick Cohen, “Without prejudice: Who trusts Mandy?”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2014-05-09",
          "text": "Every wised-up wit who mistakes knowingness for knowledge proclaims that Peter Mandelson is a gutless fixer; a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf. […] If only the idle stereotype were true.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Houellebecq seems to be saying that French society, in the form of its politicians, its journalists, its academics and not least its novelists, will get exactly what it deserves – a state run by those who believe in something bigger and grander than the pelf and perquisites of their elevated positions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon."
      ],
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          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Money",
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        ],
        [
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        ],
        [
          "gain",
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        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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          "mammon",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "acquisition"
        },
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          "word": "booty"
        },
        {
          "word": "money"
        }
      ],
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        "dated",
        "derogatory",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English dated terms",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
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        "Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants."
      ],
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        ],
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          "refuse",
          "refuse#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "plants",
          "plant#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "trash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English English",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dust; fluff."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Southwest",
          "southwest"
        ],
        [
          "Dust",
          "dust#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fluff",
          "fluff#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Southwest England",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "important person"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "Yorkshire English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contemptible or useless person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "contemptible",
          "contemptible"
        ],
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ],
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        "(countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "worthless person"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Yorkshire",
        "countable",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
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        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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    },
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
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}

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