| 词汇 | boodle |
| 词源 | boodle. The Dutch in the New World called a bundle of paper money or a sack of gold a boedal, which served as the term for any property, goods, or effects. The word’s spelling gradually became boodle and it was used as underworld slang for coun- terfeit money and graft or bribery money, later becoming slang for a large bundle of money or money in general, with no im- plication of dishonesty. |
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