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語源

From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle (dialectal term meaning building or house).

発音

• IPA: /ˈbuːdəl/
• 韻: -uːdəl

名詞

boodle (countable and uncountable, plural boodles)

1. (slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.

   Synonyms: dirty money, black money; see also Thesaurus:money, Thesaurus:booty

   • 1907 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “According to Their Lights”, in The Trimmed Lamp […] , New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.:

     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.

   • 1917 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”, in His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published October 1917, →OCLC, page 297:

     “The boodle. The reward. The £500. The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me.

   • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

     […] 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.

   • 1966 September 22, Kurt Vonnegut, “The Fall of a Climber”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Rather than believe it, he goes crazy, falls in love with a marchioness, and gives his boodle gladly to a swindling genealogist who promises to establish that his delusions of nobility are justified.

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

   Synonym: kit and caboodle

   • 1833 January 4, Jack Downing, letter to Ephraim Downing‎:

     He pulled off his coat and threw it down, and declared he'd fight the whole boodle of 'em

3. (US, slang, West Point) Candy and snacks.
   • 1986, The Parent's Guidebook to West Point, page 62:

     Send the first boodle in an airtight container so that there is a place for the storage of future packages […] Suggestions for Boodle: cookies, candy, individual packets of drink mixes (sugar-free), raisins, nuts, gum.

派生語

動詞

boodle (third-person singular simple present boodles, present participle boodling, simple past and past participle boodled)

1. (slang) To engage in bribery.

アナグラム

• bloode, boledo, boloed