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Spondulix
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.
==Etymology==
There are two views on the origin of the word. The most likely is from the Greek ''spondulox'' which is a type of shell. The Spondylus shell was used as neolithic jewellery and also an early form of money.〔(The United States Service Magazine ), vol 3. June, 1865. p. 539. "A Word About Slang." "'Spondulix' is suggestive. It recalls the wampum of the poor Indian, the cowrie of the Ethiopian, and resuscitates the ancient blackmail man, who, as his kinsman, the dun, does today, called upon his victim to 'shell out.' For 'Spondulix' is conchological. The ''spondylus'' (from Greek ''spondulos'',) is a shell inequivalve . . ."〕
There may also be a connection with ''spondylo-'' which means spine or vertebrae, based on the similarity between a stack of coins and a spine. This is referenced in an 1867 book by John Mitchell Bonnell〔John Mutchell Bonnell, A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: for the Use of Colleges and Schools, J.P. Morton and Co. (1867)〕 and quotes etymologist Michael Quinion's correspondence with a Doug Wilson linking the spine to piled coins. Thus: "Spondulics - coin piled for counting..."
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