Word.ws English Dictionary

bootle

/ˈbuːtəl/

bootle is the alternative spelling of boodle.

Meaning of boodle

Noun

boodle (countable and uncountable, plural boodles)

  1. (slang) Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
    • He was your 'man higher up' when you were on the force. His share of the boodle passed through your hands. You must go on the stand and testify against him.1907 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “According to Their Lights”, in The Trimmed Lamp […] , New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
  2. (US, dialectal) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
    • He pulled off his coat and threw it down, and declared he'd fight the whole boodle of 'em1833 January 4, Jack Downing, letter to Ephraim Downing
  3. (US, slang, West Point) Candy and snacks.
    • Send the first boodle in an airtight container so that there is a place for the storage of future packages […] Suggestions for Boodle: cookies, candy, individual packets of drink mixes (sugar-free), raisins, nuts, gum.1986, The Parent's Guidebook to West Point, page 62

See all 4 meanings of boodle

Proper noun capitalized: Bootle

Bootle

  1. A town in Sefton borough, Merseyside, England, formerly in Lancashire.
  2. A village and civil parish in Cumberland UA, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, historically in the county of Cumberland (OS grid ref SD1088).
  3. A surname.

Forms of bootle

pluralbootles

Questions about bootle

What does bootle mean?
Bootle means a town in Sefton borough, Merseyside, England, formerly in Lancashire.
What is bootle the alternative spelling of?
Bootle is the alternative spelling of boodle.
What part of speech is bootle?
Bootle is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bootle?
Bootle is pronounced /ˈbuːtəl/.

Words near bootle in the dictionary

  1. bootlace worms
  2. bootlaced
  3. bootlaces
  4. bootlast
  5. bootlasts
  6. bootle
  7. bootleg
  8. bootleg ground
  9. bootleg grounds
  10. bootlegged
  11. bootlegger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bootle (page history and authors); Bootle (page history and authors); boodle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Bootle.wav.

Cite this entry: “bootle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bootle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.