spondulicks
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spondulicks
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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But in a larger sense, the Qataris were offering something more seductive than pure spondulicks.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
For the Roosevelt Administration, after seven years of practice in free & easy spending, was now really swinging the spondulicks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pinhead was worth eighty millions, Miss Nothingbutt had eighty-two; Why do cash and spondulicks get married?
From Why They Married by James Montgomery Flagg
Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party—its way now made a pacific one—would need the "spondulicks."
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
Suppose I can't raise the spondulicks in time for the ten train!
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed
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