oodles

[ ood-lz ]

noun

, (sometimes used with a singular verb)

1. a large quantity:

   oodles of love; oodles of money.

oodles

/ ˈuːdəlz /

plural noun

1. informal.
   great quantities

   oodles of money

Word History and Origins

Origin of oodles¹

First recorded in 1865–70; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of oodles¹

C20: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

When Kounalakis turned her eye to elected office, oodles of cash again cleared her pathway.

From Los Angeles Times

So the latter gets oodles of extremely misleading coverage, while the truth — that Trump's team has a fully fleshed-out plan to ban abortion — is largely ignored.

From Salon

That means Biden is going to need oodles of cash to blanket battleground states where a few thousand votes could mean the difference between victory or defeat.

From Seattle Times

There have been oodles of ink spilled previously about the artist for adults too, including from his own pen.

From New York Times

The key to developing flexible machine-learning models that are capable of reasoning like people do may not be feeding them oodles of training data.

From Scientific American

Related Words

• lots
• tons