cards vs boodle

boodle vs cards

cards and boodle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cards	Yes	No	No	No
boodle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, boodle is a hyponym of cards; that is, boodle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cards:

cards: a game played with playing cards
boodle: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Other hyponyms of cards include all fours, high-low-jack, baccarat, chemin de fer, beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked, blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un, bridge, casino, cassino, crib, cribbage, ecarte, euchre, five hundred, fantan, parliament, sevens, faro, Go Fish, monte, three-card monte, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops, nap, Napoleon, old maid, bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle, piquet, pisha paysha, poker, poker game, rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante, rum, rummy, patience, solitaire, long whist, short whist, whist, four-card monte.

cards (noun)	boodle (noun)
a game played with playing cards	a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
	informal terms for money

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