This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined by flipping the letter p

This week’s words
binnacle
bollard
bathophobia
baragnosis
boodle


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Next week’s theme
Words related to veggies

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(BOOD-l)

MEANING:

noun:	1. An illegal payment, as in graft.
	2. A crowd of people.
verb intr.:	To take money dishonestly, especially from graft.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Dutch boedel (property). Earliest documented use: 1833. Also see caboodle.

USAGE:

“[Moss Hart’s book] told of a scam to launder police-graft boodle by producing a flop musical.”
Ethan Mordden; Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre; Oxford University Press; 2013.

See more usage examples of boodle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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