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plute slang (chiefly U.S.).|pluːt| Also ploot. Abbrev. of plutocrat. Hence ˈplutish a., plutocratic.
1908S. Ford Side-Stepping with Shorty i. 13 Then we bumps up against a really truly plute, and gets a squint at his dinner check. 1910Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure i. 3 He's got much more money than any man, except a professional plute, has any right to. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt ii. 23 Our little bunch has a lot liver times than all those plutes. 1923Daily Mail 29 May 8 ‘The plutes’, as he [sc. Henry Ford] humorously nicknames the financial and industrial interests of the country, would never permit his nomination. c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 80 This plutish press condemns our class. 1931E. Pound Let. 6 Oct. (1971) 235 The only person in Amurikuh who cd. continue your periodical is Marianne. The necessary irreproachable respectability, the that against which no lousy ploot can object on the grounds of her not bein' a lady or bein' likely to pervert the growing school child, etc... Marianne has experience—quality dear to the cautious ploot. 1932Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 18 Feb. 5/2 You'll hear the plutes cry out, The ‘Yellow Peril’ is Japan. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 106 Folk with no salary The heavens swat, while ploots can manage And the ‘outs’ cannot. 1959― Thrones 67 Ultramontaines Bitched France and then Austria, aristos are ignorant Plus illiteracy of the ploots. |