Word Study
caboodle
CIDE DICTIONARY
caboodle, n.
The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle or the whole kit and caboodle. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
caboodle, n.
Idiom
the whole caboodle sl. the whole lot (of persons or things).
Etymology
19th c. US: perh. f. phr. kit and boodle
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