oodles
Syllables: oo·dles/ˈuːd(ə)lz/
oodles noun: unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons. Also the plural of oodle.
Noun
oodles pl (normally plural, singular oodle)
- unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
- "Along the lake where I went camping once there were oodles of a bright purple thing." / "I don't know what that was," my mother said. "I've never lived near the water. The purplest thing around here is joe-pye weed. We can look him up and see if he has any relatives. Come to think of it, the book...1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Ipswitch edition, London: André Deutsch, published April 1973, →ISBN, page 121
- Minimalist yet soothing décor, private pools and steam rooms […] and simply oodles of class make this one of the island's top choices. Honeymoon, anyone?2008, Andrew Burke et al., Thailand’s Islands & Beaches, 6th edition, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 323
Also used as
oodles is also the plural of oodle.
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Forms of oodles
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Origin of oodles
Uncertain; perhaps from scadoodles (“unspecified large amount, number, or quantity”) (US, slang) (although the Oxford English Dictionary notes this is attested slightly later), or from boodle (“whole collection or lot”) (US, dialectal), caboodle (“large collection of people or things”) (US, slang) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
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Questions about oodles
- What does oodles mean?
- Oodles means unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
- What part of speech is oodles?
- Oodles is a noun.
- How do you pronounce oodles?
- Oodles is pronounced /ˈuːd(ə)lz/.
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