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Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant.
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 ...
Mar 23, 2002 · A lighthearted term which was obsolescent by the 1960s (having originated in the USA in the 1850s), but which like other synonyms for money was revived in the 1980s (compare 'rhino,' 'pelf,' etc.). It originated as a learned witticism, borrowing the Greek term, 'spondylikos; pertaining to the 'spondylos,' a seashell used as currency."
spondulicks, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
The meaning of SPONDULICKS is fractional currency. How to use spondulicks in a sentence.
May 21, 2023 · spondulicks (n.) spondulicks. (n.) "money, cash," 1856, American English slang, variously spelled, a word of unknown origin. Century Dictionary says originally it meant paper money. It is sometimes said to be from Greek spondylikos, from spondylos, a seashell used as currency (the Greek word means literally "vertebra").
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SPONDULICKS definition: 1. humorous for money 2. humorous for money. Learn more.
