Meanings
oodles1
singular oodle
- informalpluralplural normallyunspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
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 3231 more example
"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 had a color index."
1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Ipswitch edition, London: André Deutsch, published April 1973, →ISBN, page 121Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload · Antonyms: ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental, bit
oodles2
- pluralplural of oodle
Synonyms & antonyms
noununspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna large number or amount
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech spousty, moře
- spoustyunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- mořeunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- kvantaunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
French foultitude, un tas (de)
- foultitudeunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- un tas (de)unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
Hungarian rengeteg, tömérdek
- rengetegunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- tömérdekunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- temérdekunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- rahedliunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
Polish masa, mnóstwo
- masaunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- mnóstwounspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
Swedish mängder, massor
- mängderunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- massorunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
- tonvisunspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with oodles
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Cite this entry
oodles. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oodles
“oodles.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oodles. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oodles,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oodles.
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