Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who accepts or acquires boodle; one who sells his vote or influence for a bribe, or acquires money fraudulently from the public.
Wiktionary
- n. slang, baseball, dated, 19th C one displaying unsportsmanlike behavior
Examples
“Which politician was the boodler and which the reformer?”
“I'm sure every boodler saw that headline, "Abbas flies home to violent opposition," and had the same thought, which is: They weren't THAT awful of a band, even if "Dancing Queen" is pretty atrocious.”
“Mr. Candidate, it's been reported that you're a boodler.”
“If the alleged boodler commented, the comment was a fair way to bootstrap the allegation into other news outlets.”
“The man was a stiff, a hackocrat, and a boodler...a friend of the boyz in the back room.”
“Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.”
“Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.”
“It's because you are a fair fighter and not a boodler that we want you at the head of the street department now.”
“Some of 'em won't go anyway -- act as if they looked down on politics; say it's only helping one boodler against another.”
“Did he just bluff with me when he called me a boodler and threw me downstairs in the county convention?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boodler’.
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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Recently Loved Words
Valentine's Day is coming up, so here's a list of words that have been "loved" here on Wordnik (our favorite site with a heart as part of its logo).
howl, lichenous, uncomplicated, siliceous, clatter, hubris, dervish, articulated, acerbic, Recently Loved Words, mellifluous, anomaly and 45 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2050 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boodler.
erinmckean Thanks for the heads-up -- can you let me know what link you're trying to share? This one, or the wordnik.com/word-of-the-day link? Feb 13, 2013
TSurine When I tried to share this on Facebook, the definition is something about unsportsman like behaviour...what is up? Feb 13, 2013