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oodles

American  
[ood-lz] / ˈud lz /

noun

(sometimes used with a singular verb)
  1. a large quantity.

    oodles of love; oodles of money.


oodles British  
/ ˈuːdəlz /

plural noun

  1. informal great quantities

    oodles of money

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of oodles

First recorded in 1865–70; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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Instead, the speculation has been rewarded with oodles of views and ominous comments about Owens’ willingness to be a harbinger of forbidden truths.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025

Los Angeles signs oodles of talented players, loses them to injury or ineptitude, and replaces them with new talented players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Or even better, they would spare the victims from being retraumatized by instead reading the reports that already exist in the Epstein files, which include oodles of victim testimony, as well as hard evidence.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2025

Our modern, digitised world generates oodles of it and this place has access to one heck of a lot of it, plenty of it in real time.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

The doctors were oodles of help, but I developed my own system for figuring out what was real and what wasn’t.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia