Boodle vs Soodle - What's the difference?
boodle | soodle |
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.
(rare) To walk slowly.
* John Clare
As a noun boodle
is money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.As a verb soodle is
(rare|intransitive) to walk slowly.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
*soodle
English
Verb
(soodl)- And as I soodled on and on, / The ground was warm to look upon.
