the phrase kit n kaboodle, what in the world is a kit, or a kaboodle.?

Answer 1

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/kit-and-caboodle.html

The above details the phrase and all such details.

It is American, New England.

I can date the exact to 1858 & 1862 both earlier than the above but that is just trivia.

“Whole kit and caboodle”

here are my findings;




1858: also 1860 perhaps earlier editions?
New England's Chattels, Or, Life in the Northern Poor-house
by Samuel Hayes Elliot - 1858 - 484 pages
The town paupers of Crampton, who arn't worth, the whole kit and boodle of them,
two bright cents in the world, come to me to ask if they shan't put on a

1862
John Brent
by Theodore Winthrop - 1864 - 359 pages
Then you 're jess one quarter richer ?n ef you owned haff, and jess three quarters
richer 'n ef you owned the hull kit and boodle of it


1872:
Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the... -
by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott, Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, United States, Congress - 1872
... and said they ought to be driven out of here with a hickory, whipped off
home, " the whole damned kit and boodle of them."

The below UK source information is valid; I just have earlier citations.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/kit-and-caboodle.html

“What we can't confirm is that the word caboodle migrated from boodle in order to sound better when matched with kit. It is possible that that's what happened, but the dates of the known citations don't support it. Whole kit and caboodle, (1884) is recorded before whole kit and boodle, (1888) and whole caboodle comes well before both, in 1848. Perhaps that's just the inadequacy or either records or research and that citations with the appropriate dates will emerge later”

Boodle.
Pay-Per-View - Washington Post - ProQuest Archiver - Aug 8, 1888
"The whole kit and boodle of them" is a New England expression in common use, and the word in this sense means the whole lot. Latterly boodle has come to be

Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - April 1, 1875, Burlington ...
Subscription - Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye - NewspaperArchive - Apr 1, 1875
The whulc kit and caboodle of'orn, with the Queen of Shcbears thrown in, wore never ar- rayed in Night Shirts wilh pictures No, sir. Tilton was an original.

“whole caboodle” 1857 newspaper, 1854 literature

”whole boodle” is 1828 & 1834

Rachel Dyer: A North American Story
by John Neal - 1828 - 276 pages
Here you men, I say 1— Whose afeard among the whole boodle of you? No answer.
Nobody's afeard—so I thought. Hourra then--hourra for the king! Hourra !

The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing: Pseud. of Downingville, Away Down East in the State...
by Seba] [Smith - 1834 - 288 pages
But pretty soon h got upon his feet, and begun to rave like a mad ox He pulled
off his coat and threw it down, and declar ed he 'd fight the whole boodle of

Dictionary of Americanisms: a glossary of words and phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the...
by John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 813 pages

Answer 2

Its been a while but I'm pretty certain is the kit is what you are carrying something in and kaboodle is what you are carrying, which was used to denote anything and everything. So the whole kit 'n kaboodle is everything and what you're carrying it in. So "all included" basically.

My mother tells me that in contents of her sewing basket is a Kaboodle, you could find anything in there!

Answer 3

sounds like a vet question to me yet i visit inform you after I do supply my cat kit and kaboodle he is going loopy and receives very puffed up. I had to stop giving it to him because he became gaining too a lot weight.

Answer 4

it means the thing plus extras

Answer 5

It basically means everything, or the whole lot.