kaboodle

[Paul A Johnston, Jr.]

Is there any evidence for a Dutch *geboedel or even a Low German *geboodel, with the collective prefix?  It might explain the "prefix".  I know boodle as an old fashioned term for loot, incl. counterfeit money.

Paul Johnston

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From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:08 pm
Subject: Re: kaboodle

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> At 5:52 PM -0700 5/18/09, Dave Wilton wrote:
> >The usual spelling is "caboodle." It's a variant of "boodle," which
> >is from the Dutch "boedel," meaning estate, possessions, or
> >property. It was more common in the 19th century, when you found
> >phrases like "the whole boodle" or "the whole caboodle."
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> Interesting.  The OED does have it as "the whole caboodle" (from
> Ohio, in 1848, with an 1873 cite from Bret Harte), but only
> vouchsafes the etymology as "supposed to be a corruption of the
> phrase _kit and boodle_, but under _boodle_ the sense that "suggests
> Du. _boedel_ 'estate, possession, inheritance, stock" is glossed as
> 'counterfeit money' and acknowledged to be "not so easy to connect
> with sense 1", which is the relevant one for _kit and (ca)boodle_
> ('crowd, pack, lot').  HDAS does give essentially the story Dave
> cites, i.e. Du. _boedel_ > _boodle_ > _caboodle_.  (There's a nice
> "whole kerboodle" under the HDAS entry for the last, also from Bret
> Harte.)
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> LH
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> >We have it only in the idiom "(the whole) kit and kaboodle", but does
> >anyone know its origin?
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