boodle
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Money fraudulently obtained in public service; especially, money given to or received by officials in bribery, or gained by collusive contracts, appointments, etc.; by extension, gain from public cheating of any kind: often used attributively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
Examples
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I am writing this letter to tell you to calm down about the bad things and kind of look around and see if something good or something important anyway happened on account of we got so rich and then lost the boodle again.
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That boodle, through growth and inflation, has come to be worth four times that much now, giving me an unearned income of seven thousand dollars a year.
Note
The word 'boodle' comes from Dutch boedel, 'estate', from Middle Dutch bōdel.
