boodle
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Dutch boedel.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbuːdəl/
[edit] Noun
boodle (uncountable)
- Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
- 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses,
[edit] Translations
Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag
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