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gelt

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 Definition: [n]  informal terms for money
 
 Synonyms: bread, cabbage, dinero, dough, kale, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels
 
 See Also: money

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Gelt\, n. [See 1st {Geld}.]
    Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
    
          All these the king granted unto them . . . free from
          all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample
          manner.                                  --Fuller.
    
    
  2. \Gelt\, n. [See {Gelt}, v. t.]
    A gelding. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
    
    
  3. \Gelt\, n.
    Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] --Spenser.
    
    
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, cabbage, chips, dinero, dough, filthy lucre, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, jack, kale, lettuce, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, rhino, rocks, shekels, simoleons, spondulics, sugar, the needful, tin, wampum
 

 

 

 

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