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oodles

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈuːd(ə)lz/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːdəlz
  • CMU ARPABET: UW1 D AH0 L Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, plural, plural-normally

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapflood, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, gob, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitflood, shitful, shitload, shitton, sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload

Antonyms: ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit

2

noun

Meaning 2

plural of oodle

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a large number or amount

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • made lots of new friends
  • she amassed stacks of newspapers

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, gobs, scads, lashings

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

History

Etymology

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).

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: spousty — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Czech: moře — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Czech: kvanta — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Faroese: rúgva — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • French: foultitude — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • French: un tas (de) — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Hungarian: rengeteg — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Hungarian: tömérdek — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Hungarian: temérdek — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Polish: masa — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Polish: mnóstwo — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Swedish: mängder — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Swedish: massor — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots
  • Swedish: tonvis — unspecified large amount, number, or quantity — see also lots