A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1629
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Pelfie, a. [f. Pelf(f,n.: cf. e.m.E. pelfish paltry (1577).] ? Consisting of money or wealth, or ? trashy, paltry. —1629 Boyd Last B. 19.
After the father hath pynned him selfe with scraiping together this thick clay and pelfie dung in commeth a forelorne deboched heire
