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

[Laurence Horn]

Too bad for the Muhlenbergers that “unbundling” wouldn’t become a Thing (much less all the rage) for another 200 years…

LH

> On Jan 10, 2024, at 2:30 PM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Interesting collection, Bonnie. Thanks. (Pascal T. has the 1814 one.)
> OED relates boodle and bundle.
> Here's a "kit and bundle."
> 
> The Muhlenbergers of Philadelphia county [....] passed a long string of resolutions denouncing in no moderate or qualified terms Governor Wolf, his friends, his nomination, the nomination of the Van Buren electoral ticket, and the "whole kit and bundle" of that side of the Jackson house!
> 
> Baltimore Patriot, March 26, 1835, 2/2  [AmHistN].
> 
> Stephen G.
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> Subject: Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)
> 
> 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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