Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, paper money; now, any money; funds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, U.S. Money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
spondulicks .
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Examples
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"Oh, we could do that all right if we had the spondulics."
Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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"Anyway, I wish he'd turn up with the spondulics."
Dubliners James Joyce 1911
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You'd a heap better spiel plain strong English that will bring you in the spondulics.
Killykinick 1888
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"Faith, if I had spondulics like you, I wouldn't amuse myself by trudging that way along the roads at night -- 'Tisn't safe along here."
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Guy de Maupassant 1871
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You shall sell many paper, and Urania shall have scoop in much spondulics and rocks.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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"Hand over your spondulics, young feller," said the second gentleman of the road.
Struggling Upward 1868
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"Hand over your spondulics, young feller," said the second gentleman of the road.
Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck Horatio Alger 1865
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There are a tribe of us, to begin with; then our family has been here for ages, and we have plenty of 'spondulics,' so we can rather lord it over the other fellows, and do as we like.
Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860
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The possible driver to the closures may also be that the IBA label is not bringing in the promised or anticipated spondulics, for whatever reason, and participants see themselves as better marketing without the IBA connection and keeping 100% of their take? news. bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk ... 454415. stm
Army Rumour Service 2010
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“Anyway, I wish he’d turn up with the spondulics.”
Dubliners 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word spondulics
"When Sterling appears later, lugging an aluminum case bursting with spondulics ..." -- "Pay and Play" by John Lahr, in The New Yorker, October 15, 2007 (p 102)
October 15, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word spondulics
And I, and a couple of others, thought it was spondulicks.
October 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word spondulics
I've seen several spellings, SoG--including spondoolicks and spondulix. It's still fun, whichever way you spell it.
October 15, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word spondulics
Yeah, in the Charlie Chaplin movie (title card) I first saw it in, it was spelled spondulicks. Forgot all about this fun word!
October 15, 2007
mollusque commented on the word spondulics
If you're broke are you despondulent?
May 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word spondulics
Only if you let it get to you.
May 9, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word spondulics
My fellows in a mineralogy/petrology class would call any rock whose name/composition that we couldn't recognize or ascertain spondulikite. Maybe reesetee would like to be named that too, if named after a mineral? It is "fun to say", as they say.
August 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the word spondulics
Ooh! Definitely an option. :-)
August 28, 2009