[Ads-l] Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

I confess that I'm not up on "boodle"-containing idioms with the general
form "the whole boodle," but some of the following might be antedatings
(until any number of you let me know that they're not).

-- Bonnie

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THE WHOLE BOODLE, 1814

(OED gives an 1827 use of "the hol boodle" for its earliest example of "the
whole boodle." Asterisks below indicate italicized text.)

The Junto defeated, from Concord retreated,
   The Governor too with his old *cock up hat*,
While the loud execration of both State and nation,
   Pursu'd the whole *boodle* on this side and that.

[In "Editor's New Year's Address to the Patrons of the New-Hampshire
Patriot," New-Hampshire Patriot (Concord), 4 January 1814, p. 4. Via
Geneaologybank.com.]

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THE WHOLE CABOODLE, 1839

(For its earliest example of "the whole caboodle," the OED shares one from
1848.)

I'll tell you the whole caboodle of the scrape! I am willing to act as a
witness!

[In "BRITISH SPIES UNMASKED!! Reported by James Mackenzie," Mackenzie's
British, Irish, and Canadian Gazette (New York, NY), 20 April 1839, p. 3.
Via Genealogybank.com. The action seems to have taken place in Niagara.)

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THE WHOLE KABOODLE, 1854

You ought to be ashamed of yourselves -- the whole "kaboodle" of you.

[In column 1, p. 3, The Morning Express (Buffalo, New York), 28 September
1854. In Genealogybank.com.]

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THE WHOLE KIT AND BOODLE, 1838

If there were men left of this description, whom the Executive had not
hunted out for appointment -- whether this bill was not a license to the
veriest rogue and to the whole kit and boodle of them, to take up the
business?

[In "In Assembly," Albany (New York) Argus, 30 January 1838, p. 2. Via
Genealogybank.com.]

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THE WHOLE KIT AND CABOODLE, 1860

Old Abe has a 'large and respectable' majority over the whole kit and
caboodle of them!

[In "Cambria County Redeemed!; Official Returns," The Alleghanian
(Ebensburg, Pennsylvania), 15 November 1860, p. 2. Via Newspapers.com. The
earliest "whole kit and kaboodle" that I've found appeared just a year
later in the same newspaper.]

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