caboodle slang (orig. U.S.).
(kəˈbuːd(ə)l)
[Supposed to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle (see kit n.1).]
the whole caboodle: the whole lot (of persons or things).
| a 1848 Ohio State Jrnl. (Bartlett, Add.), The whole caboodle will act upon the recommendation of the Ohio Sun. 1873 B. Harte Fiddletown 3 She had more soul than the whole caboodle of them put together. 1901 B. Pain De Omnibus 79, I was forced ter give 'im eleven coppers, which 'e took and then dropped the 'ole caboodle. 1904 Daily Chron. 6 May 8/4 ‘Give them a week's notice and start them.’ ‘What, the whole caboodle?’ 1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xvi. 259 If we know they're comin', you can bet your sweet life them as runs the 'ole caboodle [sc. war] knows it too. 1923 Strand Mag. Oct. 351 Actually, the whole caboodle, sold, not pawned, produced seventy, not fifty—hundred and twenty in all. |