gelt

(gelt)

transitive verb

geld

noun

Slang money

Origin: Yiddish geld < MHG (a late-19th-c. borrowing): orig. (16th c.) < Ger or Du geld, but fell out of use except dialectally: cf. geld

See gelt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Slang

Money.

Origin:

Origin: Yiddish

Origin: , from Middle High German geld

Origin: , from Old High German gelt, recompense

verb

A past tense and a past participle of geld¹.

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