If we’re talking about the whole lot of something, we call it the whole kit and kaboodle. But what’s a kaboodle? In Dutch, a “kit en boedel” refer to a house and everything in it. For the sake of the English idiom, we just slapped the “k” in front. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Kit and Kaboodle”
In our Facebook group, Ken Clayton asked about kit and caboodle.
He wanted to know what a caboodle is.
Did you see that question?
Yes.
Well, it turns out that the phrase kit and caboodle probably comes from Dutch.
There’s a phrase in kit and boodle, meaning a house with furnishings.
So it basically means the house and everything in it.
So the caboodle, the ca was probably added to the boodle in the same way that we add a ca to kerplunk and kerflush and kerplank and other words like kerfuffle and things like that.
Cool, right?
Kit and caboodle.
Kit and caboodle.
From Dutch.
From Dutch.
English is a rich history of stealing from other languages.
