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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PELF, n. [probably allied to pilfer.] Money; riches; but it often conveys the idea of something ill gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French pelfre booty Date: 14th century money, riches

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. derog. or joc. money; wealth. Etymology: ME f. ONF f. OF pelfre, peufre spoils, of unkn. orig.: cf. PILFER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. ``Mucky pelf.'' --Spenser. ``Paltry pelf.'' --Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? --Fuller.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Money, riches, lucre, mammon, gain, wealth (contemptuous term).

Moby Thesaurus

affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, capital gains, cash, circulating medium, cleanup, clear profit, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, debris, dividends, dollars, earnings, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gain, gains, garbage, get, gettings, gleanings, gold, gross, gross profit, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, hoard, income, independence, interest, junk, kelter, killing, legal tender, litter, lucre, luxuriousness, makings, mammon, managed currency, material wealth, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn, moneybags, moolah, neat profit, necessity money, needful, net, net profit, offal, ooftish, opulence, opulency, paper profits, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, proceeds, profit, profits, property, prosperity, prosperousness, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, rhino, riches, richness, rubbish, scratch, scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, smash, soft currency, specie, sterling, store, stuff, stumpy, substance, take, take-in, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, trash, treasure, upper bracket, waste, wealth, wealthiness, winnings