oodles

[ ood-lz ]

/ ˈud lz /

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noun (sometimes used with a singular verb)Informal.

a large quantity: oodles of love; oodles of money.

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Origin of oodles

First recorded in 1865–70; origin uncertain

Words nearby oodles

o'o, ooblast, oocyst, oocyte, O.O.D., oodles, oof, oogamete, oogamy, OO gauge, oogenesis

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How to use oodles in a sentence

There is charm, oodles of it, but also a steeliness about Gilkes.
William, Kate, and Jay Z’s Favorite Art Star: Alexander Gilkes' World of Rock Stars and Royalty|Tim Teeman|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Desperate to win it back, Democrats concluded they had to raise oodles more money.
Time is Money: How to Fix Outrageous Political Spending|Jim Arkedis|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The letter ignited a stink bomb on Wall Street and provoked oodles of controversy and commentary in the media.
Goldman Sachs’s Cleanup Man Is Clinton Scandal Master|Lloyd Grove|March 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Marty was cool because he took his hideousness and, with a brilliant wit and oodles of self-knowledge, he flaunted it.
Marty Feldman: Dead Cool|Simon Doonan|November 2, 2009|DAILY BEAST

This lack of water always worried him, he said, for women always want water, and oodles of it.
The Prairie Wife|Arthur Stringer
Buckwheat cakes, each as big as the plate itself with "oodles of butter and real maple syrup," to quote Bob.
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp|Alice B. Emerson
Charlie's father had oodles of money, and was the principal director of the idea, and he was the grouch.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead
For the present she realized only that she had oodles of money to sprinkle.
We Can't Have Everything|Rupert Hughes
Her father is one of the high muck-a-mucks of the Black Pennant Lineowns oodles of stock.
The Corner House Girls on Palm Island|Grace Brooks Hill

British Dictionary definitions for oodles

oodles

/ (ˈuːdəlz) /

pl n

informal great quantitiesoodles of money

Word Origin for oodles

C20: of uncertain origin

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