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pelf

[pelf] / pɛlf /
NOUN
money
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And for her trouble somehow ends up with the whole weird Pelf family descending on her, maskless, prompting her to flee to her father’s house with Shep.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

After I got the double in Game 1, they all — Hojo, Pelf, all those guys, D-Wright — they were all texting me.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010

"Pelf," supplied George, on a thin squeak that was shot out by the excitement of seeing events so lustily playing his hand.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Ah, Love! could you and I lay on the Shelf This Sorry Scheme of Ill-begotten Pelf, Would we not Shatter it to Bits, and Then Remould a System just to suit Ourself?

From The Re-echo Club by Wells, Carolyn

The reason this chap in the box here Made his lady friend Mrs. Van Pelf, He had a whole car-load of diamonds And he couldn’t well wear them himself!

From Why They Married by Flagg, James Montgomery




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