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Definition of Oodles
1. Noun. A large number or amount. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"
Generic synonyms: Large Indefinite Amount, Large Indefinite Quantity
Definition of Oodles
1. Noun. Lots; an unspecified large number, quantity, or amount. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oodles
1. a large amount [n OODLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oodles
Literary usage of Oodles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"oodles, subs. (American).—See quot. 1869. 1869. Overland Monthly, iii. 131. ...
All you lack's the feathers, and we've got oodles of 'em right here. ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"A Texan never has a great quantity of any thing, but he has "scads" of it,
or "oodles," or "dead oodles," or "scad- oodles," or ..."
3. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"463, 503 ; ii, 86, 126, 207, 208 ; 188, 190, 344, 348, 351, 358, 436, 437, iii,
21, 98, 118, 150 T oodles a Father, it, 139 Toodles and the Mummy, i, ..."
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