Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Money.
- v. A past tense and a past participle of geld1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. slang Money.
- n. Judaism Money given as a gift on Hanukkah.
- n. Judaism Candy eaten on Hanukkah in the shape of coins, wrapped in metallic foil.
- n. obsolete Gilding; gilt.
- v. Simple past and past participle of geld
- n. A gelding.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Trubute, tax.
- n. obsolete A gelding.
- n. obsolete Gilding; tinsel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. informal terms for money
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from gelden ("to geld, castrate"). More at geld. (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish, from Middle High German geld, from Old High German gelt, recompense. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Students of another local Jewish institution, Chabad Hebrew School in Blue Ash, will be building their menorah out of chocolate coins, known as gelt, on Sunday morning.”
“April 10th, 2009 12: 37pm stanley Jerusalem only the gelt is the problem to getting there - the funt does not buy much these days, so I will have to suffer the jibes of the punctuaters as I drown in the lonly sea of common sense alone - well more or less:)”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“It’s called gelt because the lesson learned is worthwhile, as precious as money, and more important than whatever was lost or spilled or forgotten.”
“At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill.”
The Huffington Post: David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
“It seemed a natural enough progression to me from dreydels, to gelt to a new Walkman ™.”
“The suck ups to the suits will allows have the gelt to run, but public financing allows folks who want to serve the voters (without "servicing" the voters) to have a decent shot.”
“When I was a child, my truth about Hanukkah was that, as the only Jewish kid in my class, Hanukkah meant that my mom would bake shortbread cookies in shapes of menorahs and dreidels and put colored sprinkles on them and bring them to school for my classmates while she explained the story of the Maccabees and handed out dreidels and chocolate gelt.”
The Huffington Post: Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah
“Even the years my dad worked at a small IT company in Markham, the four of us would get to attend a Chanukah party where the woman of the household would fry up the most delicious latkes and treat every kid there with a piece of chocolate gelt.”
“And don't go stingy on the leftover chocolate gelt.”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Fineman: On Dating & Parental Pressure.
“Refreshingly, the commercial breakthrough led not to diminishing creative returns in lieu of Hollywood gelt, but instead yielded several unique, seemingly quixotic projects.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gelt’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 318 more...
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Hanukkah Words
sufganiyah, latke, gelt, dreidel, Maccabeus, Hallel, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, mitzvah, tzedakah, eight, chanukkiah and 11 more...
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 74 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 256 more...
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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.pages
tamerlane, rickett, bastan, barnum, byssus, carys, lyris, vidler, morphos, leafwing, phaon, scudder and 238 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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Yiddishisms
kvech, putz, oy, oy vey, shlemiel, shlemazel, mazel, yuntif, kepple, fleegul, pupik, shlep and 31 more...
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