Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Money, especially counterfeit money.
- n. Money accepted as a bribe.
- n. Slang Stolen goods; swag.
- n. Slang A crowd of people; caboodle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Crowd; pack; lot: in a contemptuous sense, especially in the phrase the whole kit and boodle.
- n. 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.
- n. Counterfeit money.
- n. A blockhead; a noodle.
- n. An old English name for the corn-marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum. Also written buddle.
- n. Same as newmarket, 1.
Wiktionary
- n. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
- n. US, dialect The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Low, U. S. The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
- n. Polit. slang, U. S. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- n. informal terms for money
Etymologies
- From Dutch boedel. (Wiktionary)
- Dutch boedel, estate, from Middle Dutch bōdel; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the mean time the governor had heard the whisper of "boodle" -- a word of the day expressive of a corrupt legislative fund.”
“We are now known as the boodle or boondoggle city.”
“Leaving her, I went to our rendezvous, near Broadway and Astor place, where I found Irving, who handed me over his "boodle" (as he termed it), remarking confidentially that I was to give him on my return his share into his own hands; and, singularly enough, each of the others did precisely the same thing.”
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
“This "boodle" deal evokes the query whether if a candidate for”
“The hint that the "boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear.”
“The telephone was not then in existence; there were no Pullman cars; the words "boodle" and "wire," in the sense here used, had never been heard.”
“He is simple in his habits, generous and kind, obedient to those who are over him either in civil or religious matters; he is a quiet citizen; he is very fond of a little "boodle" (when he can get it), and it is looked upon as one of his virtues which he sometimes pursues to an unwholesome extent; he is called up and rebuked for it, goes away and soon begins to do it again.”
“boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear.”
“It is their boodle, pelf and spoils that they are trying to preserve.”
“ÂIt is their boodle, pelf and spoils that they are trying to preserve.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boodle’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
blandish, blazon, blench, blendling, blendure, blewit, blunge, blype, borné, borsella, borzoi, boscage and 582 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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SAVED FAVES
Listless no more,
arrears, addle, akimbo, allure, appurtenance, bibelot, bibulous, bifurcate, blither, boodle, crapulous, coprolite and 122 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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Show Me the Moolah
Slang terms (mostly American) for money.
dough, lettuce, moolah, rhino, spondulicks, buck, sawbuck, greenback, pony, c-note, grand, thou and 58 more...
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The Octopus
Words gleaned from Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus
deerhound, diapason, thitherward, chitter, unsteady, wiper, overspire, inanition, sheen, hiccough, quirt, broncho and 44 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
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Payola
Bribes and such.
payola, sop, kickback, soap, palm-grease, boodle, meed, dasturi, gratulance, golden grease, lubrication payment, payoff and 9 more...
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Dutch Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cockatoo, furlough, holster, trawl, cruller, brackish, buckwheat, crimp, floss, klompen, catkin, grabble and 87 more...
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oodles
Words ending with "oodle"
poodle, cloodle, caboodle, canoodle, boodle, doodle, noodle, schnoodle, st. berdoodle, labradoodle, goldendoodle, cockapoodle and 3 more...
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Wampum
mazuma, moolah, dough, bread, buck, clam, boodle, dinero, wampum, lettuce, simolian, chip and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boodle.
yarb "As soon as the railroad wants to talk business with me," observed Annixter, "about selling me their interest in Quien Sabe, I'm ready. The land has more than quadrupled in value. I'll bet I could sell it to-morrow for fifteen dollars an acre, and if I buy of the railroad for two and a half an acre, there's boodle in the game."
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 3 Aug 9, 2008
oroboros Crossword puzzle clue for swag. Jan 16, 2008
bilby "'You study the life and times of Jan-Willem Hendrykxx. I could bear to know how he made his boodle and why he left it to the Ol Njorowa Foundation.'"
- 'Windfall', Desmond Bagley. Jan 6, 2008