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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
He catalogues the words: contraband, Reb, Copperhead, Grayback, dog-robber,
Dead Beat, Dead-head, confiscate, and then the new words for money, currency,
greenback, spondulicks. Some of these words originated in the Civil War; some ...
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Pocket Posh® Word Power: 120 Words that Are Fun to Say
on, not for all his spondulicks and as much more on top of it. —Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1912 If you are reading this, you've pondered it:
how cool would it be to play your favorite sport at your house? Some people
accrue ...
The Colonel burst into song, and all the others joined him in the chorus, to the
tune of " On Canaan's Happy Shore " : — " He who hath plenty of spondulicks,
And giveth his neighbor none, Sha'n't have any of my spondulicks, When his own
...
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Wordbook of Australian Idiom: Aussie Slang
... yeah the spitting image' spondulicks Money or cash— 'I can't help you mate I'm
right out of spondulicks' sponger To cadge, lives of borrowing from others— 'He is
a sponger a blood sucker' sport To be affable, to ask a favour— 'C 'mon mate ...
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Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News
'Spondulicks,' a colleague suggested. To prove the point, over the next week '
spondulicks' appeared in many stories across various newspaper sections for
which my colleagues wrote, from business – where it may have had at least some
...
Interview answer: 'My chosen client base, the Japanese, are going through
certain short-term difficulties, but it is only a matter of time before they have
spondulicks like you have never seen spondulicks and will rule the world.' Not a
fable I ...
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Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the ...
dinero 1856 shiny † 1856 spondulicks 1857 scad 1858 soap 1860 sugar 1862
coin 1874 filthy lucre 1877 pay dirt 1882 A slang adaptation of the Spanish word
for 'money'. It was originally an Americanism, but gained wider use through ...
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Curious English Words and Phrases: The Truth Behind the ...
Spondulicks The term was first noticed in the mid-1800s in the United States. The
origin, however, is unknown. There are many informal words for money – some
with a reason behind them, others simply made up: dough, moolah, pony, quid, ...
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Informal English: Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi ...
[Randolph & Wilson] splorum Much ado about nothing — much cry and little wool
. Or in the Yankee dialect, "all talk and no cider." [Farmer] spondulicks A term for
specie or money. It would appear to have some connection with Dutch spaunde,
...
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On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters ...
May they ever have plenty of "spondulicks" to relieve the boys in the field, if they
can't relieve us on picket.8 Monitor [Mercury, October 8, 1863] Morris Island, Sept.
26, 1863 Messrs. Editors: — Since my last epistle to the "elect in Bedford," there ...
James Henry Gooding, Virginia M. Adams, 1999
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Irish Water's not dead, it's just resting
Irish Water isn't dead as a parrot, the take-up figure of less than 50pc isn't a disaster, and the 100 spondulicks isn't either a cock-up or a bribe. It is, in fact, ... «Irish Independent, 七月 15»
8 commonly used phrases and their interesting origins - happy as …
Bacon did not use to be the affordable breakfast food of the masses – in fact it was a signal to your contemporaries you were flush with the spondulicks. So if the ... «Metro, 六月 15»
These guys turned from gangsters into tour guides, and it's working …
Not bad for their first year of pulling legal spondulicks. In their success, Forteza Tours has become a model for community inclusion as well as compelling proof ... «Fusion, 四月 15»
The Ballymahon bonanza goes down a treat with Enda
A projected whopping annual income of €32m spondulicks into the coffers. Tonnes of tourists. A massive injection of cash, employment and attention to the ... «Irish Independent, 四月 15»
Paul Little: Government shutting its eyes
... who has ever done up a house knows the final bill will be considerably more than quoted and you'll have to go to the bank for the required spondulicks. «New Zealand Herald, 二月 15»
This week's new theatre
Money and antisemitism are the themes, of course, and a largely Christian city obsessed with spondulicks would seem to offer an intriguing backdrop. Whatever ... «The Guardian, 十一月 14»
Quit drooling, fanbois - haven't you SEEN what the iPhone 6 costs?
Yet that ability to get us to part with our cash has been greatly aided by the manner in which we are gently parted from our spondulicks rather than be faced with ... «Register, 九月 14»
7 End piece written for a musical work (4)
... for a musical work (4); 8 Reply (6); 13 OK (4,4); 15 Cook — distort (7); 16 Embrace (6); 18 Rapidity (5); 20 Obtuse — impenetrable (5); 21 Spondulicks (4) ... «The Guardian, 八月 14»
Brian Reade column: Man United moaner Van Gaal has found the …
Plus, how does he imagine these “global commercial brands” keep the spondulicks pouring in, for his £7m-a-year salary and afford him an “unlimited” transfer ... «Mirror.co.uk, 七月 14»
Football transfers rumours: Manchester United winger Nani to …
But with all those squillions of oil spondulicks, why does a club like City need to bring some luck upon itself, the Mill hears you ask, dear reader. Well it's simple ... «The Guardian, 七月 14»
