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1. www.worldwidewords.org › weirdwords › ww-spo1Spondulicks - World Wide Words

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   Sep 29, 2001 · Spondulicks. Though originally a bit of mid-nineteenth-century American slang for money, this has travelled widely, being cast up on the shores of Britain and Australia among other places. It’s a member of a group of words created in a century-long fit of logographical exuberation which also gave us slumgullion, rambunctious, and absquatulate ...

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2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › spondulicksSpondulicks Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of SPONDULICKS is fractional currency. How to use spondulicks in a sentence.

3. www.oed.com › dictionary › spondulicks_nspondulicks noun - Oxford English Dictionary

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   spondulicks, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

4. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › us › definitionspondulicks noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and ...

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   Definition of spondulicks noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › spondulicksSPONDULICKS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SPONDULICKS definition: 1. humorous for money 2. humorous for money. Learn more.

6. www.thefreedictionary.com › spondulicksSpondulicks - definition of spondulicks by The Free Dictionary

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   Define spondulicks. spondulicks synonyms, spondulicks pronunciation, spondulicks translation, English dictionary definition of spondulicks. also spon·doo·licks pl.n ...

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   What does Spondulicks mean?

   • It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat The meaning of SPONDULICKS is fractional currency. How to use spondulicks in a sentence.

   Spondulicks Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Where does the noun Spondulicks come from?

   • The earliest known use of the noun spondulicks is in the 1850s. OED's earliest evidence for spondulicks is from 1857. An arbitrary formation.

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   Is Spondulics college slang?

   • A list of provincialisms included: “Spondulics — coin piled for counting”. If it is indeed college slang, either explanation may well be the kind of academic joke that would appeal. Otherwise, your guess is as good as mine. Originally a mid-nineteenth century American college slang expression, spondulicks is now more common in Britain.

   Spondulicks - World Wide Words

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   Where did the word spondylo come from?

   • Eric Partridge suggests that it might derive from Greek spondulikos, from spondulos, a species of shell once used as money. However, Doug Wilson pointed out that that Greek stem is also the source of various English words beginning in spondylo– that refer to the spine or vertebrae.

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8. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullFull article: Reading Music through Literature: Introduction

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   Feb 13, 2017 · Michael Allis. In 1982 Steven Paul Scher identified three general categories to help us understand the rich connections between music and literature. 1 The category of “music in literature”—which includes the literary “imitation…of the acoustic quality of music,” adaptations of “larger musical structures and patterns and the ...