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oodles

ood·les

UK/ˈuːd(ə)lz/ US/ˈudʌlz/ rare informal

noun

1.

a large number or amount

  • “made lots of new friends”
  • “she amassed a mountain of newspapers”
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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).

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