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elf | pelf |

As an initialism elf

is (a radical environmentalism group).

As a noun pelf is

money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre).

elf

English

Noun

(elves) (wikipedia elf)
  • (Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Every elf , and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.
  • Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. Usually skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
  • (fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse (through Tolkien's Eldar)
  • A very diminutive person; a dwarf.

    • Derived terms

    * elfin * elfinwood * elfish * Elfland * elflock * elven * elvish * light elves * dark elves

    See also

    * fay * fairy * brownie * dwarf * hobbit

    References

    * Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races'' Series, Volume 2 ''Eddic , Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220-221.

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    pelf

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre)
  • * 1906 , Frederick Tatham, Life of Blake'' in Archibald George Blomefield Russell (ed.), ''The Letters of William Blake :
    • But, sighing after his fancies and visionary pursuits, he rebelled and fled fifty miles away for refuge from the lace caps and powdered wigs of his priggish sitters, and resumed his quaint dreams and immeasurable phantasies, never more to forsake them for pelf and portraiture.
  • * February 20, 2000 , Nick Cohen, Without prejudice , The Observer:
    • . . . a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf .
  • * July 20, 1997 , Harriet P. Gross, Author roots her stories in Vietnam War , Dallas Morning News:
    • She writes about those she might have known first-hand: teenage girls cowering in bunkers . . . friends making promises they can never keep . . . rich folk fattened on wartime pelf , poor folk surviving by wit alone.
  • * April 27, 1987 , Ford S. Worthy, You're Probably Working Too Hard , Fortune:
    • In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf .
  • * October 1968 , Nicholas von Hoffman, The Class of '43 Is Puzzled , The Atlantic:
    • Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.