"A whole squad have got to permit to see you. "I know a feller 'twould whip the whool boodle of 'em an' give 'em six."įrom Bangor Daily Whig And Courier, Maine, 1839: ".and some of these college professors are just about as bad, the whole kit and bilin' of 'em are nothing in God's world but socialism in disguise!" In the gaming sense, when a man has "lost his boodle", he has lost his pile or whole lot of money, whatever amount he happened to have with him." Latterly, boodle has come to be somewhat synonymous with the word pile, the term in use at the gaming table, and signifying a quantity of money. "The whole kit and boodle of them" is a New England expression in common use, and the word in this sense means the whole lot. "It is probably derived from the Old-English word bottel, a bunch or a bundle, as a bottel of straw. This piece, titled 'The Origin of Boodle', is from The Dunkirk Observer-Journal, New York, September 1888:
It may still be a step along the way - either unrecorded before 1888 or recorded in an, as yet, undiscovered work. From Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785.Īlthough this citation is slightly later than that of the final 'whole kit and caboodle', it's worth including as it gives a 19th-century version of the meaning of the term. The whole kit - the whole of a soldier's necessaries, the contents of his knapsack. Caboodle was never in common use outside the USA and now has died out everywhere, apart from its use in this phrase.
Most of them are of US origin and all the early citations are American. There are several phrases similar to the whole kit and caboodle, which is first recorded in that form in 1884. The words kit and caboodle have rather similar meanings.Ī kit - is set of objects, as in a toolkit, or what a soldier would put in his kit-bag.Ī caboodle (or boodle) - is an archaic term meaning group or collection, usually of people.
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