Crossword clues for gelt
gelt
- Cash, so to speak
- Money given at Hanukkah
- Coin-shaped Hanukkah candy
- Yiddish money
- Slang for money
- Money: Slang
- Informal name for money
- Hanukkah coins
- Hanukkah candy
- Yiddish dough
- Yiddish cabbage?
- It's won in a game of dreidel
- Hanukkah moola
- Hanukkah money
- Hanukkah dough?
- Hanukkah dough
- Hanukkah chocolates
- Hanukkah chocolate coins
- Hanukkah chocolate
- Hanukkah "moolah"
- Hannukah reward
- Dreidel stakes
- Coin-shaped chocolate candy
- Chocolate coins
- Cabbage, dough or do-re-mi relative
- Cabbage, dough or bread
- Yiddish cash
- Moolah
- Moola
- Shekels
- Cabbage or kale
- Traditional Hanukkah gift for kids
- Dinero
- Spondulix
- Hanukkah gift
- Do-re-mi
- Hanukkah goodies
- Hanukkah largesse
- Loot
- Of male animals such as horses
- Cut off the testicles
- Informal terms for money
- Mazuma
- Dough
- Cabbage; bread
- Lucre
- Kale
- Cabbage or bread
- Money, in slang
- Money, slangily
- Money, informally
- Hanukkah moolah
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See 1st Geld.] Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
All these the king granted unto them . . . free from
all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample
manner.
--Fuller.
Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See Gelt, v. t.]
A gelding. [Obs.]
--Mortimer.
Gelt \Gelt\, n.
Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"money," 1520s, from German, Dutch gelt "gold, money" (see geld (n.)). In some later uses, from Yiddish.
past participle of geld (v.); hence, as an adjective, "castrated" (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context rare English) A lunatic. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) gilding; gilt. Etymology 3
n. A gelding. vb. (form of Simple past and past participle geld English) Etymology 4
n. 1 (context slang English) money. 2 tribute; tax Etymology 5
n. 1 (context Judaism English) money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. 2 (context Judaism English) chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
WordNet
See geld
Usage examples of "gelt".
Seine eigene Entdeckung, dass auch die geistige Produktion, bis in einem gewissen Punkte wenigstens, unter dem Gesetze der Kausalitat steht, dass jedeiner nor geben kann, was er hat, nur hat, was er irgenewoher bekommen, muss such fur ihn selber gelten.
Tonilda, the silk and jewel markets of Ikat Yeldashay or the iron foundries of Gelt.
Belishba, Chalcon, Gelt, Lapan and Kabin of the Waters: Ortelga, Paltesh, Tonilda, Ur-tah, Yelda and Sarkid of the Sheaves.
I thought, well, I'll go out to the lake tonight, meet 'em in Limna, and they'll be glad to see me for the gelt, for a dimber dinner and drinks, and maybe a couple uphill rooms for us after.
I heard he’s pushed the TWA divestment price way up, so when he gets the gelt he can funnel it straight into some account he’s holding, like some kind of zillion-dollar ‘buy up Vegas’ fund.