A boodler is someone involved in political graft or corruption. The word likely derives from Dutch boedel, meaning “property.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Boodler”
Grant, do you know the word boodler?
It’s a kind of scammer?
Yes! It is indeed a scammer.
What do they scam?
Well, it’s somebody involved in bribery or corruption.
It comes from the Dutch word boodle, which means property.
And I learned about that from Anu Garg’s Word of Day email, which everybody should be subscribing to.
You can find it at wordsmith.org.
Boodle.
Yeah, boodle is property and boodler is somebody who’s corrupt.
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