spondulicks
英 [spɒn'djuːlɪks]
美
- n.
- [俚语]钱；资金
- [古语]辅币[亦作 spondulix]
英文词源
- spondulicks (n.)
- 1856, American English slang, "money, cash," of unknown origin, said to be from Greek spondylikos, from spondylos, a seashell used as currency (the Greek word means literally "vertebra"). "[U]sed by Mark Twain and by O. Henry and since then adopted into British English" [Barnhart], where it survived after having faded in the U.S.