A boodler is someone involved in bribery, graft, or political corruption. The word likely traces to Dutch boedel, meaning property; English boodle has carried that property-and-money sense, while boodler points to the person doing the corrupt dealing. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Dutch “Boedel” Explains “Boodler” and Its Link to Property”
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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