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spondulics; spondulix; sponds; spondos noun money US, 1857- Anyway, I wish he’d turn up with the spondulics. — James Joyce, Dubliners, p. 94, 1967
- Jack, shekels, mazuma, simoleons, Mr. Green, filthy lucre, even spondulicks–this is the other Why of prostitution. — Gail Sheehy, Hustling, p. 11, 1973
- [G]et your act cleaned up and some spondulix pamped [placed] in my purse. — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1990
- Ask any Dublin taxi driver–assuming every last one of them hasn’t fecked off to the Caribbean with the spondulix they made over Christmas! — Joseph O’Connor, The Irish Male at Home and Abroad, p. 220, 1996
- [B]ecause he never seemed to flash any of the sponds he claimed to have earned from his various “jobs” and “blags” and because he slept in shop doorways[.] — Howard Paul, The Joy, p. 36, 1996
- [W]hen the establishment Mafioso realise how much gilt, paper, cashish, wonga, wedge, corn, cutter, loot, spondos, dollar, readies, shillings, folding, dough, money is on offer[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 94, 2000
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