oodles
Plural: oodles
Noun
- A very large amount or quantity; abundance.
- a large number or amount
- unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
- plural of oodle
Examples
- He had oodles of vowels, but no consonants to make a word.
Origin / 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).
Synonyms
dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads, abundance, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, bucketful, bucketload, bumload, busload, butt-ton, buttload, cartload, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitful, shitload, shitton, slew, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
oodles: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoodles: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
oodles: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary