Boodle vs Doodle - What's the difference?
boodle | doodle |
Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses ,
(US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
(obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
* 1764 , Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett , W. Lowndes (1797),
* 1812 , "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge , 2 March 1812,
* 1837 , "Carmen Inaugurale", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine , November 1837,
A small mindless sketch, etc.
Penis.
* 1993 , Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam , Wakefield Press (1993), ISBN 9781862543102,
* 1996 , Jane Bonander, Winter Heart , Pocket Star Books (1996), ISBN 9780671529826,
* 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie , Brava Books (2011), ISBN 9780758263094,
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To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly
As nouns the difference between boodle and doodle
is that boodle is money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag while doodle is a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.As a verb doodle is
to draw or scribble (something) aimlessly.boodle
English
(wikipedia boodle)Noun
(-)- 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.
- 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.
- (Bartlett)
Anagrams
*doodle
English
(wikipedia doodle)Noun
(en noun)page 43:
- Mrs. Sneak . Why doodle ! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
- Sneak . Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.
page 231:
- Perceval . Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,
- Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle !
page 676:
- Courtier, it was thine to bow —
- Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!
page 189:
- His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
page 43:
- Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles' would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his ' doodle .
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- All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle'. He had the wandering-est '''doodle''' in three states. His '''doodle''' had its own set of legs. His '''doodle''' was hardly at home. Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's '''doodle was hardly ever in his ''pants .