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by laurent_du 531 days ago
"Pactole" means "heap of money" in French slang. As in a heap of money you keep under your matrass, or a large sum you win suddenly. Hence Paktol.
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cfiggers 531 days ago
Ah, that makes sense! I googled it and the only thing I found spelling it the way the app does is that it's a word meaning "sorcery" in a language from the Philippines that I've never heard of before this...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paktol

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