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.

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