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单词 pelfry
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pelfryn.

Forms: late Middle English–1500s pelfrey, 1500s pelfary, 1500s pelfray, 1500s pelfrie, 1500s pelfrye, 1500s 1800s pelfry, 1500s–1600s pelfery.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pelf n., -ry suffix.
Etymology: Apparently < pelf n. + -ry suffix. Compare pilfer n. and note on forms s.v.; compare also pilfery n.Compare Middle French (Normandy) pelfrerie (14th and 15th centuries), Middle French peufferie, feuperie (1382), peuferie (15th cent.), French regional (Normandy) peuferie, feuperie.
Obsolete.
1. Booty, spoils, plunder; (also) a pilfered or plundered item. Cf. pelf n. 1.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder
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pelfry?a1475
pilfery1489
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spreaghery1814
stake1819
?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 331 Pelfrey [1440 Harl. 221 Pelfyr], spolium.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. xxiii. §2. 737 The gaines, & pelferies, that the Phariseis made of the people.
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. F4v This black Arte..is called in English Picking of Lockes... The gaines gotten is Pelfery.
1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 439/1 These were bartered for the superabundant bread and meat of the southernly colonies, and for the pelfries which the planters had either captured in the chase or bought of the Indians.
2. Junk, rubbish, trash; = pelf n. 4b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
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bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
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nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
buttermilk1630
dross1632
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cattle1643
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flap-dragon1700
mud1706
caput mortuuma1711
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powder-post1790
traffic1828
junk1836
duffer1852
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cagmag1875
shit1890
tosh1892
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dreck1905
schlock1906
cannon fodder1917
shite1928
skunk1929
crut1937
chickenshit1938
crud1943
Mickey Mouse1958
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a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 125 Soche pelfry thou hast pachchyd, And so thy selfe houyr wachyd.
1538 N. Shaxton in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1715) III. Collect. Rec. iii. 146 Lockes of Heere, and filthy Ragges, Gobbetts of Wodde, under the Name of Parcells of the Holy Cross, and such Pelfrie.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 37 He..settes out much rifraffe, pelfery, trumpery, baggage & beggerie ware.
1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner Pref. sig. Aiij Indulgences, Beades, Pardons, Pilgremages, and suche other pelfray.
a1851 W. Cameron Hawkie: Autobiogr. Gangrel (1888) (modernized text) xi. 88 The ‘pelfry’ manufacturer does well, and is at no loss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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