noun
money or wealth, especially when regarded with contempt or acquired by reprehensible means.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old French pelfre booty
1300–50; Middle English < Old French pelfre booty
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| —n | |
| derogatory money or wealth, esp if dishonestly acquired; lucre | |
| [C14: from Old French pelfre booty; related to Latin pilāre to despoil] | |
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Pelf
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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pelf
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. pelf, from O.Fr. pelfre "booty, spoils" (11c.), of unknown origin, related to pilfer (q.v.). Meaning "money, riches," with a pejorative overtone first recorded c.1500.
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