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Spondulix (2004)
All the brass and all the needful, All the spondulix and buttons."
The interpretation is that "out of spondulix" refers to running out of money, "to spout" meaning to "pawn" in order to gamble on cards.
In a Vanity Fair article about college life in the New York, there appears the sentence: "My friend the Senior got out of spondulix, and borrowed [my watch] to spout for the purpose of bucking the Tiger."
Harriet's papa did not spend lots of spondulicks on her private education in vain.
Because, or course, all women work in her rarified milieu, and earn gazillions of spondulicks writing articles for the Atlantic.
Danny's skill at scoring for his local darts team had once been legendary and his mind dwelt lovingly now on those accumulated spondulicks.
"spondulicks: n. slang.
He observes everything, down to the way dealers handle their money, "crooning to it, calling it pet names: lettuce, spondulicks, filthy lucre.
Spondulix, spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, and spondulics are alternative spellings of spondoolies.
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