boodle
英 ['buːd(ə)l]
美['bʊdl]
- n. 贿赂；一组；一群
英英释义
- 1. informal terms for money
- 2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops;
英文词源
- boodle (n.)
- 1833, "crowd;" 1858, "phony money," especially "graft money," actual or potential (1883), both American English slang, either or both based on bundle, or from Dutch boedel "property."