Iron County Record | 1904-09-10 | Page 2 | Real Meaning of "Boodle."

Real Meaning of -"'Boodle." Lato American dictionaries acknowledge acknowl-edge "boodlo" ns a word. Dr. Murray quotes from an American paper of 1884: "'Sinews of war,' 'soap,' and other synonyms for campaign boodlo aro familiar." Thoro, howover, "boodlo" Is, oxplnlncd ris meaning only "stock-in-trade," kinship with tho Dutch "bocdol," a man's stock of business busi-ness or household goods, being highly probablo. Porhaps "boodlo," meaning a crowd or pack, as in tho phrase, "tho wholo boodlo (or caboodle) of them," Is tho same word. In that sense "bud-dIo" "bud-dIo" Is, found4n tho early sevontGOntlr century. No doubt It is only a coincidence coinci-dence that thero is an old Scotch word "boddlo" or "bodlo," meaning a twopenny two-penny pieco, and derived from the namo of tho mint-master Bothwell.