noun
caboodle
kuh-BOO-dul/kəˈbuːdl/
An entire collection of people or things.
The whole caboodle of picnic supplies includes a blanket, basket, dishes, and food.
Etymology
Caboodle meant a crowd, pack, or lot. In “kit and caboodle,” earlier “kit and boodle,” it denotes the collection as a whole; boodle may come from a Dutch word for property.
In context
we're not just talking about talking we're talking about the whole kit and caboodle so clinical supervision is shaped by a variety of things
More examples
- We bought the tent, sleeping bags, and entire caboodle.
- They moved the whole caboodle into the spare room.
- He offered to take the entire kit and caboodle off our hands.
Forms
caboodle
Similar words
- collection
- A neutral grouping, while caboodle informally emphasizes the whole lot.