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spizorinkum. Born on the American frontier, spizorinkum was originally used during the 1850s as the term for “good” hard money, as opposed to greenbacks or paper currency, but soon came to have many diverse meanings, including “tireless energy.” It was possibly used so much because people liked the sound of the word! In any case, spizorinkum is “an impossible combination” of the Latin specie (“kind”) and rectum (“right”), “the right kind.” The word is sometimes spelled with two z’s. |