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Oodles

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1867, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally U.S.

Large or unlimited quantities; a very great number or amount of something

ExampleMeaning
Ah jus-- just the rides now, you-know back in my day you didn't- like nowadays you-know kids get to do so much right, in my days money was you-know restricted and you maybe- even when I was raising my kids, you-know I only- they got one game, one ride, and one treat. And- and now you just go and you can spend oodles. Hundreds of dollars at a fair you-know.
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Yeah it was in the last three years that somebody- nobody applied for it. Yeah. Now this year they said they had oodles. Yeah.
Lots
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But the one- that was my mom's. I di-- I did that for her. And the one out there. I-mean I've got oodles of them but since we re-did the house, they're in closets.
Lots
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Speaker: Yeah, they herding the cows, yeah. Interviewer: And cats? Farm cats or- Speaker: Oodles of cats.
Lots
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And we would have oodles of them, you-know?
Large or unlimited quantities; a very great number or amount of something.