gelt

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Irish geilt.

The Calroza Sisters are sure some lookers and will give you a run for your gelt. — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
"Tom," said Jo, "that dog o' thine 'as killed twenty of Widder Gelt's sheep, last night. — Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination cloathe; whom the well-seasoned beef, and pudding richly stained with plums, delight: thee I call: of whom in a treckschuyte, in some Dutch canal, the fat ufrow gelt, impregnated by a jolly merchant of Amsterdam, was delivered: in Grub-street school didst thou suck in the elements of thy erudition. — History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

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