Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pelf \Pelf\, n. [OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to pelfrer
   to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. {Pilfer}.]
   Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea
   of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.
   ``Mucky pelf.'' --Spenser. ``Paltry pelf.'' --Burke.

         Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry?
                                                  --Fuller.

Source : WordNet®

pelf
     n : informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage},
          {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale}, {lettuce}, {lolly},
          {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons},
          {sugar}, {wampum}]