(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.
Kail
Definition:
(n.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
(n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
(n.) A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent paper by Kail (1988) in this journal appears to contain a significant error in the data analysis.
(2) Using the data made available to us by Kail, we have reanalyzed these results.
(3) "Down at Dulwich Hamlet's Champion Hill stadium every match we still sing two terrace chants in celebration of Edgar Kail, the last non-league player to represent England and a one-club man who last played for Hamlet in 1933, 80 years ago," writes Robert Molloy-Vaughan.
(4) A couple of clubs can claim still to sing the praises of players even longer departed than the great Edgar Kail.
(5) In this article, I argue that most of the claims made by Morrison, Morrison, and Keating (1992) do not undermine the key results of the Kail (1988) study and that, contrary to their claims, the evidence still provides support for the original conclusion that a global mechanism is implicated in age-related change in speed of processing.
(6) "Down at Dulwich Hamlet's Champion Hill stadium every match we still sing two terrace chants in celebration of Edgar Kail, the last non-league player to represent England and a one-club man who last played for Hamlet in 1933, 80 years ago," wrote Robert Molloy-Vaughan last week .