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oodle|uːd(ə)l|
Also -lin (in sense 1).
[Of uncertain origin.]
1. In pl., large or unlimited quantities; abundance, ‘heaps’. colloq.
1869Overland Monthly III. 131 A Texan never has a great quantity of any thing, but he has ‘scads’ of it, or ‘oodles’, or ‘dead oodles’, or ‘scadoodles’, or ‘swads’. 1887J. C. Harris in Century Mag. Apr. 846/2 All you lack 's the feathers, and we've got oodles of 'em right here. 1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls iii. 57 A grand young pig, they'll be gettin' oodles o' money on at the fair afore Lent. 1900Ade Fables in Slang 80 Jethro..had learned Oodles of slang up in Chicago. 1904W. N. Harben Georgians 115 An' now you, a man with oodlin's an' oodlin's o' pore blood kin..are a helpin' at the job. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iii. 78 It snowed hard. Just oodles of the most perfectly dazzling snow. 1928Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 6/2 With oodles of ‘Och Ayes’, more Scots than ever bled with Wallace have flooded the office with caustic correspondence. 1929D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 409 You wouldn't catch me coming down to the City every day, if I'd got oodles of boodle like that. 1940O. Nash Face is Familiar 7 And he had one object all sublime, Which was to save simply oodles of time. 1957Sunday Times 14 Apr. 13/3 Oodles for the rich, and practically nothing for the poor. 1967She Dec. 95/1 The cover assures me that there are ‘oodles of prizes’, which indeed there are. 1975New Yorker 19 May 95/2 (Advt.), Front and back yokes and oodles of shirring for fullness.
2. Austral. and N.Z. slang. Money in general. rare.
1941in Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 51. |