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▪ I. boodle1|ˈbuːd(ə)l|
[Origin and history obscure; but the mod.U.S. boodle, in sense 1, must be the same as Markham's buddle: sense 2 (also only in U.S.) may be a different word; it suggests Du. boedel ‘estate, possession, inheritance, stock’, which it is not so easy to connect with sense 1.]
1. Crowd, pack, lot: as in the contemptuous ‘the whole boodle’. Cf. caboodle.
1833J. Neal Down-Easters I. 61, I know a feller 'twould whip the whool boodle of 'em an' give 'em six. 1847D. P. Thompson Locke Amsden 76 [He] stumped all the rest to come on, one at a time, and there wasn't a soul of the whole boodle that dared do it. 1858O. W. Holmes Autocrat 139 He would like to have the whole boodle of them (I remonstrated against this word, but the professor said it was a diabolish good word..) with their wives and children shipwrecked on a remote island. 1895[see kit n.1 3].
2. a. Counterfeit money. U.S. slang.
1858Harper's Weekly 3 Apr. (Th.), Boodle is a flash term used by counterfeiters... The leaders [of the gang] were the manufacturers and bankers of the boodle. 1884Boston (Mass.) Globe 7 Oct., ‘Sinews of war’..‘soap’ and other synonymes for campaign boodle are familiar.
b. Money acquired or spent illegally or improperly, esp. in connection with the obtaining or holding of public offices; the material means or gains of bribery and corruption; also, money in general. slang (orig. U.S.).
1883Judge (U.S.) 3 Mar. 7/1 As long as the people pay, As long as there's ‘boodle’ to capture. 1884Mag. Amer. Hist. XII. 566/2 Boodle..has come to mean a large roll of bills such as political managers are supposed to divide among their retainers. 1887Nation (N.Y.) 14 Apr. 307/3 New York is better known all over the..world for boodle Aldermen and municipal rings than for anything else. 1888St. Louis Globe Democrat (Farmer), She presented a draft for 2000 dols. drawn upon a Detroit bank, and received the cash. Immediately after that she left for the East with the boodle. 1892Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker ix. 138 It took my fancy; it was so romantic, and then I saw there was boodle in the thing. 1917Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 294 ‘What about the dough?’ he asked... ‘The boodle. The reward. The {pstlg}500.’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 600 Ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could.
Hence ˈboodle v. trans., to bribe; intr., to practise bribery; ˈboodler, one who practises boodling; ˈboodling vbl. n., bribery, bribing.
1872G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service 347 He ventured to collar Wightman, knowing him..to be grand Sachem among these ‘boodlers’ or confidence men. 1888in Amer. Speech (1960) XXXV. 267 Boodling, taking money unlawfully by way of bribe or otherwise. 1894Congress. Rec. Aug., App. 1229/1 What we call the government of the people..has become a government of boodlers. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 31 Aug., We fancy that the people of Missouri will conclude to diminish boodling rather by taking from than adding to the powers of the dominant machine. 1904W. H. Smith Promoters iv. 86 If you're going to boodle you've got to do it on a party basis. If I wanted to boodle an Illinois legislature, [etc.]. 1909C. F. G. Masterman Condition of England iv. 153 The average citizen..is not yet convinced that its [sc. Socialism's] adherents will make a better job of it than the ‘boodlers’ and ‘blood suckers’.
▪ II. boodle2 slang.|ˈbuːd(ə)l|
A stupid noodle.
1862Kingsley in Macm. Mag. Dec. 96 A good many people..have seen all the world, and yet remain little better than blokes and boodles after all.
▪ III. boodle3
var. of buddle, corn-marigold. |