boodleize
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From boodle (“illegally obtained money”) + -ize. First attested in 1883.
Verb
boodleize (third-person singular simple present boodleizes, present participle boodleizing, simple past and past participle boodleized) (US, obsolete)
- To bribe.
- 1908, "Cyclone" J H Davis, chapter XLIX, in William Alexander Cocke, The Bailey Controversy in Texas, Cocke Company, A Stirring and Patriotic Address, page 974:
- Every patriotic man in the state today should look with unfeigned approbation on Robert Vance Davidson, who has put the Standard Oil gang in Texas under a fine of over a million and a half dollars He fought millions of money in the hands of a set, which has never hesitated to boodleize, bribe and bulldoze its way where possible.
- 2013 March 12 , Anton Myrer, chapter 1, in Once an Eagle, HarperCollins, →ISBN, Orchard:
- "That's war, my girl," he retorted, and rubbed his mouth with the back of his hand. "What are you suggesting—that I boodle-ize it all for the boy? That's what war is …"
Synonyms
- boodle, bribe, pay off; see also Thesaurus:bribe
References
- “boodleize, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
