Pelf vs Pelt - What's the difference?
pelf | pelt |
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 :
* February 20, 2000 , Nick Cohen, Without prejudice , The Observer:
* July 20, 1997 , Harriet P. Gross, Author roots her stories in Vietnam War , Dallas Morning News:
* April 27, 1987 , Ford S. Worthy, You're Probably Working Too Hard , Fortune:
* October 1968 , Nicholas von Hoffman, The Class of '43 Is Puzzled , The Atlantic:
The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved]] with the hairy or [[wool, woolly covering on it.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
(lb) Human skin.
:(Dryden)
To bombard, as with missiles.
To throw; to use as a missile.
To heavily.
To throw out words.
* Shakespeare
To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
As nouns the difference between pelf and pelt
is that pelf is money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre) while pelt is the skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved]] with the hairy or [[wool|woolly covering on it or pelt can be a blow or stroke from something thrown.As a verb pelt is
to bombard, as with missiles.pelf
English
Noun
(-)- 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.
- . . . a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf .
- 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.
- In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf .
- Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.
pelt
English
(wikipedia pelt)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pelette, diminutive of from the same Old French and Latin roots.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Possible contraction of pelletVerb
(en verb)- They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
- The children pelted apples at us.
- It's pelting down out there!
- Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
- The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.