different between reward vs pelf

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/, /?i?w??d/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???w??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.

Displaced native Middle English lean (“reward”), from Old English l?an (“reward”); Middle English schipe, schepe (“reward, wage”), from Old English scipe (“wages, payment, reward”). Partially displaced Middle English meed, mede (“reward, meed, recompense”), from Old English m?d (“reward, meed, recompense”).

Noun

reward (plural rewards)

1. Something of value given in return for an act.

   Synonyms: payment, recompense, tithing, meed

   Antonym: punishment

2. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch

   Synonym: bounty

3. The result of an action, whether good or bad.

   Synonym: consequence

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder, whence modern French regarder, also English regard through Middle French), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *ward?n (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon ward?n (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep”), Old High German wart?n (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward.

Verb

reward (third-person singular simple present rewards, present participle rewarding, simple past and past participle rewarded)

2. (transitive) To give a reward to or for.

3. (transitive) To recompense.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
   • Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

Derived terms

• rewardable
• rewarder
• rewarding
• unrewarded

Related terms

• award

Translations

Further reading

• reward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warder, drawer, redraw, warder, warred

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English pelf, pelfe (“stolen goods, booty, spoil; forfeited property; money, riches; property; valuable object”), possibly from Anglo-Norman pelf (a variant of pelfre (“booty, loot”)) and Old French peufre (“frippery; rubbish”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a metathesis of Old French felpe, ferpe, frepe (“a rag”). The English word is perhaps related to Late Latin pelfa, pelfra, pelfrum (“forfeited or stolen goods”), Middle French peuffe and French peufe, peuffe (“old clothes; rubbish”) (Normandy), and pilfer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

pelf (countable and uncountable, plural pelfs)

1. (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:acquisition, Thesaurus:booty, Thesaurus:money
2. (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (Britain, dialectal) refuse from plants.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash

3. (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff.
4. (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:worthless person

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:important person

Derived terms

• pelfish (obsolete)
• pelfray, pelfry (obsolete)

Related terms

• pilfer (possibly)

Translations

References

Further reading

• “PELF, sb.” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume IV (M–Q), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1903, ?OCLC, page 461.