boodle

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun informal terms for money
noun a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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

"Could I--couldn't I--help with the boodle? — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
Even Tammany's thoughts began to lift above the sordid level of boodle. — A Honeymoon in Space, George Chetwynd Griffith
I would like to know before I go to bed just how much boodle I have acquired. — Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience, Horatio, Jr. Alger

bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

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