Thursday, April 30, 2015

Word of the Day

boodle
\BOOD-l\
noun
1. the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
2. a large quantity of something, especially money: He's worth a boodle.

Quotes
He would like to have the whole boodle of them…
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858

Origin
Boodle is an Americanism. It may be related to the Dutch word boedel, which means "property."

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