(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(2) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(3) Ideas that cater to new food trends, such as ready made “courgetti” – spaghetti made from courgettes – and “boodles” – noodles made from butternut squash – also helped attract new shoppers.
(4) It is currently the most valuable real estate available on the market and generates annual rents of £19.3m from retailers such as Boodle & Dunthorne, Mango and Zara.
(5) "Sweetheart," he says to whoever is on the other end of the line, and sitting the other side of the frosted glass, "I do need to speak to Charlotte at Boodles.
(6) The raid came on the day of the Stop G8 group's Carnival against Capitalism, targeting banks, hedge funds, mining and oil firms in central London as well as Claridge's hotel and Boodle's private club in the runup to the summit in County Fermanagh.
(7) But yet another half-cock game of hunt the boodle dragging out week after week?
(8) It also featured the private clubs Annabel's and Boodle's, and Buckingham Palace.
(9) In addition to Heaton, other members of the panel are Patrick Mears (chair), a senior tax partner at law firm Allen and Overy; Michael Hardwick, a consultant at law firm Linklaters; Brian Jackson, vice-president for group tax at Burberry group plc and previously tax partner at KPMG ; Sue Laing, a partner at law firm Boodle Hatfield; Gary Shiels, a business consultant; and Bob Wheatcroft, a partner in accountancy firm Armstrong Watson.
Doodle
Definition:
(n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(2) Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish, Julius Richard Petri, who was born on May 31, 1852 with a doodle on its home page.
(3) The same day, a departmental personal computer began playing "Yankee Doodle," a sign of "Doodle" virus infection.
(4) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
(5) So you never died, you just kept regenerating.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest 65th anniversary of the birth of Freddie Mercury For Cruikshank, the key to the popularity of the Doodle is that “it shows the human behind the machine”.
(6) For a guy used to doodling funny pictures – it's possible that I'm underestimating the work that goes into building an animation empire – MacFarlane had his hands full with Ted .
(7) Google has nailed its colours to the mast over Russia's gay rights record in a new Google doodle , which is dedicated to the Olympic charter.
(8) We have one meeting going on above the table and another underneath.” There hasn’t yet been a Google Doodle marking Lassie’s birthday.
(9) A functioning Turing machine, a representation of a computing device, is the latest Google doodle , which celebrates the birth of Alan Turing on 23 June, 1912.
(10) "It was really hard to bite our tongues," says Taylor, who's furiously doodling a turtle with laser eyes and avoiding any eye contact.
(11) The doodle features an animation of five swimmers bobbing in and out of the water as a wave splashes over them.
(12) The doodle features six petri dishes which are swabbed by a hand.
(13) Google India has marked the 95th birthday of tabla legend Ustad Alla Rakha with a doodle dedicated to him.
(14) Today, however, the Google Doodle has evolved into a global showcase for beautiful illustration fused with creative technology.
(15) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
(16) The collection appear to be chosen on the basis of being inspirational or beautiful rather than being endangered; Google's doodle is accompanied by a photo-sharing initiative on Google+ called #MyBeautifulEarth .
(17) Other doodles in Buckworth’s notebook seen by the Herald included a sketch of a chandelier; the phrase “Terrorismadeup”; and a cartoon of a child clutching his head with a thought bubble saying: “Tyrannosaurus Rex.
(18) The search engine said it tried to be sensitive in not putting sombre occasions into one of their trademark doodles but instead featuring them in some way on their homepage.
(19) Where Kid A's Everything in Its Right Place was a messy and inconsequential doodle, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box is sharp, articulate and riven with paranoia, a subject lead singer and conspiracy theorist Thom Yorke, who recently implied he was the subject of MI5 surveillance, is well-qualified to discuss.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.