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1857 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) He lost..All the brass and all the needful, All the spondulix and buttons.

1863 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) Those ordering job work should come down with the spondulicks as soon as the work is done.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov. I paid for my Kissingen in five-cent ‘dingbat’ or ‘spondulick’—two of the many names given to the fractional currency.

1868 All Year Round 19 Sept. 354/1 A restaurant..where the tallest sort of feeding may be had at all hours at the lowest possible cost to the spondoolics.

1889 E. Sampson Tales of Fancy 36 I was instructed to allow my opponent to gain a lap in advance..in order to draw out the spondoolicks.

1896 J. H. Bloomfield Cuban Exped. 20 As long as the Cubans can raise the spondulix, they'll get plenty of people to fit out expeditions for them.

1899 T. M. Ellis Three Cat's-eye Rings 32 Oh, I shall pull in the spondulicks,..I tell you.

1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 58 The one with the spondoolix wonders harder than the one who has none.

1912 W. Owen Let. 23 Apr. (1967) 131 I shall do nothing until Father brings me some ‘spondoolick’.

1923 E. P. Oppenheim Inevitable Millionaires xi. 121 ‘Do I understand that the young man..has dissipated the whole of his patrimony, in twelve months?’ he inquired. ‘Every bean,’ Harold assented. ‘Not a spondulik left.’

1966 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 9 Aug. 1/10 (advt.) Spondooliks. Dollars, pounds or call it what you like, you'll save plenty at Direct Disposals.

1980 Private Eye 29 Feb. 13/1 No one seemed very anxious to come up with the spondulicks.