{"id":4172,"date":"2011-01-03T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2011-01-03T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:17:16","slug":"pelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"Pelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pelf<\/strong> <em>noun<\/em>, money or wealth, especially if dishonestly acquired; lucre. Also a slang term for money.<\/p>\n<p>Etymology: from the Old French <em>pelfre<\/em> (booty); related to the Latin <em>pil\u0101re<\/em> (to despoil).<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/pelf\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I came across this word today in The Times in an article about a British supermarket starting a pawn broking service, or more specifically a gold exchange service. I hadn&#8217;t encountered it before and thought at first that it was a typo. The context is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the other alchemists promising to turn gold into cupro-nickel are doing so at a rate so miserly that even a richly embossed heirloom would barely provide a widow&#8217;s <strong>pelf<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFrom: The Times, 3rd January 2011\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelf noun, money or wealth, especially if dishonestly acquired; lucre. Also a slang term for money. Etymology: from the Old French pelfre (booty); related to the Latin pil\u0101re (to despoil). [Source] I came across this word today in The Times in an article about a British supermarket starting a pawn broking service, or more specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}