pelf

Meaning

1. (dated, derogatory, uncountable) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
2. (dated, uncountable) Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants.
3. (uncountable) Dust; fluff.
4. (Yorkshire, countable, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.

Opposite of

worthless person, little guy, nonentity, peasant, peon, pleb, plebe, prole, shrimp

Synonyms

kale

dough

scratch

sugar

gelt

wampum

wealth

lettuce

lolly

shekels

moolah

dinero

simoleons

loot

lucre

boodle

money

💸

bread

🍞

cabbage

clams

opulency

coin

🪙

currency

dollars

funds

mammon

monies

opulence

riches

richness

throughput

treasure

nabobery

nabobism

Shekel

bank notes

Translations

para

💸

servet

παράδες

فُلُوس

riquesa

quartos

💸

pasta

cuques

peles

pistrincs

calés

πλούτος

χρήμα

χρήματα

دراهِم

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɛlf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pelf

Cognate with Middle French: peuffe

Cognate with French: peufe

In summary

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.