gelt
pronunciation
How to pronounce gelt in British English:
UK [gelt]
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- Noun:
- informal terms for money
Word Origin
- gelt (n.)
- "money," 1520s, from German and Dutch gelt "gold, money," from Proto-Germanic *geldam "payment" (see geld (n.)). In some later uses from Yiddish gelt, from Old High German gelt "payment, reward," from the same source.
- gelt (adj.)
- past participle of geld (v.); hence, as an adjective, "castrated" (mid-15c.).