boodleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːdəl/

名詞

boodle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 boodles)

1. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
   • around 1900, O. Henry, According to Their Lights

     He was your 'man higher up' when you were on the force. His share of the boodle passed through your hands. You must go on the stand and testify against him.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     […] marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garotted.

2. (US, dialectal) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

同意語

• (money): See Thesaurus:money
• (illegally acquired money): See Thesaurus:booty
• (whole collection):

アナグラム

• bloode, boledo, boloed