"boodle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbuːdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-boodle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: boodles [plural]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|boedel}} Dutch boedel, {{doublet|en|bottle}} Doublet of bottle Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} boodle (countable and uncountable, plural boodles)
  1. (slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Money Synonyms (illegally acquired money): dirty money Translations (Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag): плячка (pljačka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), нещо крадено (nešto kradeno) (Bulgarian), bottino [masculine] (Italian), refurtiva [feminine] (Italian), ворованные деньги (Russian)
    Sense id: en-boodle-en-noun-yFiL5hyc Disambiguation of Money: 65 22 8 4 Disambiguation of 'illegally acquired money': 80 14 6 Disambiguation of 'Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag': 96 2 2
  2. (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle. Tags: US, countable, dialectal, uncountable Synonyms (whole collection): kit and caboodle
    Sense id: en-boodle-en-noun-opKr3uBf Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 41 19 8 Disambiguation of 'whole collection': 5 93 2
  3. (US, slang, West Point) Candy and snacks. Tags: US, countable, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-boodle-en-noun-8B4r10Ke Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: money [money, finance, business], black money See Thesaurus:booty Derived forms: boodle fight

Verb

IPA: /ˈbuːdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-boodle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: boodles [present, singular, third-person], boodling [participle, present], boodled [participle, past], boodled [past]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|boedel}} Dutch boedel, {{doublet|en|bottle}} Doublet of bottle Head templates: {{en-verb}} boodle (third-person singular simple present boodles, present participle boodling, simple past and past participle boodled)
  1. (slang) To engage in bribery. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-boodle-en-verb-aq-VK-5J

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.