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語源 1

Uncertain; perhaps from scadoodles (“unspecified large amount, number, または quantity”) (米国用法, スラング) (although the Oxford English Dictionary notes this is attested slightly later), or from boodle (“whole collection または lot”) (米国用法, dialectal), caboodle (“large collection of people または things”) (米国用法, スラング)^[1] +‎ -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈuːdlz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈud(ə)lz/
• Hyphenation: oo‧dles

名詞

oodles pl (normally 複数形, 単数形 oodle)

1. (originally US, informal) Chiefly followed by of: an unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   • 1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Ipswitch edition, London: André Deutsch, published April 1973, →ISBN, page 121:

     "Along the lake where I went camping once there were oodles of a bright purple thing." / "I don't know what that was," my mother said. "I've never lived near the water. The purplest thing around here is joe-pye weed. We can look him up and see if he has any relatives. Come to think of it, the book had a color index."

   • 2008, Andrew Burke [et al.], Thailand’s Islands & Beaches, 6th edition, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 323:

     Minimalist yet soothing décor, private pools and steam rooms […] and simply oodles of class make this one of the island's top choices. Honeymoon, anyone?

参照

Further reading

• indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.

名詞

oodles

1. plural of oodle

アナグラム

• dolose, dooles, loosed, soloed, soodle, sooled