spondulicks
\spon-DOO-liks\
noun
1. Older Slang. money; cash.
Quotes
…I've told him a many a time I wouldn't trade places with him; for, says I, a sailor's life's the life for me, and I'm derned if I'd live two mile out o' town, where there ain't nothing ever goin' on, not for all his spondulicks and as much more on top of it.
-- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
Origin
Spondulicks came to English in the mid-1800s and is an Americanism of uncertain origin.
