pelfish
English
Etymology
pelf + -ish
Adjective
pelfish (comparative more pelfish, superlative most pelfish)
- Of or relating to pelf, or riches.
- 1582, Richard Stanihurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis:
- Wherefore , that I may the sooner vnbroyde ye pelfish trash
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pelfish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)