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oodles^¹

/ˈuːd(ə)lz/

Rhymes with -uːdəlz

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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).

noun oodle

informal, plural, plural normally, with "of" 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 h
Similar: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload · Opposite: ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn

oodles^²

/ˈuːd(ə)lz/

Rhymes with -uːdəlz

noun

plural plural of oodle

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noun unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots

Français	foultitude, un tas (de)

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@misc{oodles_2026,
  title = {oodles},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oodles},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}