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Post Kit and caboodle
Posted on: Mon Feb 15, 1999 1:00 am

Do you know the origin of the phrase "the whole kit and caboodle"?

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Posted on: Thu Feb 18, 1999 9:00 am

Kit means simply equipment; caboodle blends the emphatic pfx. 'ker-' with either Du. 'boedel', household effects, and thus one's personal estate, or Scot. 'bodle', a small coin worth two Scot. pence (or one-sixth of an English one) and as such usually glossed as 'worthless'.

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