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NOUN
  1. informal terms for money

How To Use pelf In A Sentence

  • Other households had found her too talkative and too opinionated, forever giving pelf mysterious airs.
  • Does anyone have any doubt how effective these powerful people have been in controlling all levers of powers, pelf and privilege?
  • PelFreez estimates that rabbit sales have climbed a steady 10 to 20 percent over the past few years.
  • They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
  • If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
  • With the chance to help the Mets 47-47 win their first post-All-Star break series—against the team with the best record in Major League Baseball, no less—Pelfrey couldn't outduel an opponent, Kyle Kendrick, who isn't even a regular member of the Phillies' vaunted rotation. Pelfrey Serves Up Meatballs
  • These are wenches and they are always seeking only pelf. So No More He'll Go A-Roving
  • “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.” No Uncertain Terms
  • Assuming they elect to retain shortstop Jose Reyes (who has an $11 million club option for 2011) and offer arbitration to outfielder Angel Pagan and pitchers R.A. Dickey and Mike Pelfrey, the Mets already will have more than $120 million committed to their payroll. It's All Over But The Reckoning
  • Surely the good folk of Chapelfields would sell inheritances for a cheap, efficient service, where trains come by every three minutes.
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