pelf

\PELF\, noun:
Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten.

--Them colonists only got their mind on one thing, and it begins with "P" and it ends with "elf," and it ain't "Pirhana elf" either. It's pelf. The answer's pelf.

--Yo dude, check out my new poem, it's called "Poisonous Pelf." It's about how money leads to corruption. Yeah, I thought of that concept myself!

--"Pelf, pudding and pom poms." -- Old Farmer's Almanac, Chapter 8 (entitled "Pompomisms")