The word was apparently reborrowed into American English in the early nineteenth century. From Francis Markham’s 1625 The Book of Honour:Īnd questionlesse, there are most infallible Reasons, why extraordinary respect should be giuen to this place of Embassador, both in regard of their election, being men curiously and carefully chosen out (from all the Buddle, and masse of great ones) for their aprooued wisedome, and experience. It makes an appearance in the seventeenth century, but that seems to be an isolated or short-lived borrowing. It’s a borrowing of the Dutch boedel, meaning the moveable goods of a person or a heap or disordered collection of things. The Magistrates took much pains to develope this mysterious affair, and were of the opinion that there was no intention of robbery, and in fact, it was doubtful if any watch was lost but of the assault they had no doubt, and bound them to that only, which made Shylock vehemently exclaim at the Office door-“Who is to pay me for my Vatch? Oh! my poor Vatch, d-n mine eyes if I don’t get payment for mine Vatch, but I will indict the whole kit of you!”īoodle, on the other hand, makes a later appearance than kit. Not only does it show the use of the whole kit, it is also indicative of antisemitism prevalent in Britain at the time: take all.Īnd there is this article about an assault on and alleged robbery of a Jewish watch salesman from 1798. KIT, a dancing master, so called from his kit, or cittern, (a small fiddle) which dancing masters always carry about with them, to play to their scholars the kit, is likewise the whole of a soldier's necessaries, the content of his knapsack, and is used also to express the whole of different commodities here take the whole kit, i.e.
Kitten caboodle full#
I saw the constables all bear down in a full body from Wood's Hotel, which is King-street end of the Hustings down to the pump when they came to the pump, I was standing facing the spot, and there came a head constable with the whole kit of the constables, each had a black staff with silver tipped at each end, and a crown at top it was about two feet long, I was standing there, and if I had not moved I should have been knocked down by it.Īnd the early slang lexicographer Francis Grose recorded it in his 1785 A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, although he got the etymology wrong: From James Hartley’s The History of the Westminster Election of that year: Much like we might say a “barrel of _” or a “passel of _,” one might say a “kit of _.” And by 1784 we see the phrase the whole kit, meaning the entirety of something, the entire group. The meaning of kit eventually transferred over to the contents of the container. In the kitchen are 2 lead vessels 1 mash vat with related items 4 wort vats of which 2 are new and 2 old 3 poor-quality vats 3 tubs 2 tins, 1 good and the other bad 2 honey vats 1 new sieve 3 good sifting cloths, 1 honey sieve, 11 barrels for beer, 2 vessels for preserving beer, 3 good containers, 2 good wort dishes, 2 tankards and 1 kit for cow’s milk, 1 churn, 1 poker for the fire, 1 good ash-rake for the fire.) Kit in the sense of a barrel or other container dates to at least 1362, when it appears in an inventory of property belonging to the monastery at Jarrow-Monkwearmouth: A hide would be large enough to support a single household, typically about 120 acres or 12 hectares, and a gyrd was one fourth of a hide, about 30 acres or 3 hectares. Hide and gyrd are measures of land, the exact size varying with the locality.
At Stroat there are 12 hides 27 gyrds of leased land-and on the Severn River are 30 basket-weirs.) (In Tidenham there are 30 hides-9 of estate land & 21 hides of tenanted land. charter granting land to the abbey at Bath: But the compound cytwer, meaning a dam, weir, or barrier fitted with baskets for catching fish is recorded. The word *cyt meaning a basket or container probably existed but isn’t recorded in the surviving record. But the history of the phrase is one of gradual accretion of elements going back over a thousand years. And caboodle sounds like a nonsense word.
We know kit as a collection of gear or equipment, but that makes little sense in this context. The constituent elements, however, make little sense to the present-day ear. Kit and caboodle is an American slang phrase meaning all, the entirety of something.
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