I agree used to hear “Oodles” oodles of times. A couple days ago I re-remembered “00dles,” with an 1860’s girl ghost character in a story I’m writing saying it.
Today wanted to check if “Oodles” starts from long enough go. It does! Thanks Oodles.
To the above commenter: The article writer wasn’t comparing “Oodles” to ‘doodle’ or whatever ‘cabookle’ is.
Was tracing the word to “Boodle,” saying that’s old Dutch; and to “Kit and Caboodle,” -that originally 18th cent slang meaning “Lots and lots,” the article writer finds.
Adrien Peu:
January 31st, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Here’s another speculation: Oodles might derive from misdivision of ‘noodle’, like orange (Spanish ‘naranja’) resulted from ‘a norange’ being heard as ‘an orange’.
Now, what if ‘oodles’ happened when the German ‘nudel’ (a thin strip of dough) migrated into English as ‘noodle’? One doesn’t ordinarily eat just one of them. Is it a long leap to interpret picture a bowl of tangled pasta as ‘an oodle’?
Just a speculation, mind…
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has:
June 26th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
it was used as a measure of or amount.oodles & oodles of somthing.
had nothing to do with doodle or cabookle
Christian:
October 6th, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Oodles is fun to say, WHO CARES WHERE IT CAME FROM!!! man i love me some oodles
Jim Coy:
January 19th, 2016 at 7:27 pm
Umm…huh??
Carl C. Hybels:
July 5th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
I agree used to hear “Oodles” oodles of times. A couple days ago I re-remembered “00dles,” with an 1860’s girl ghost character in a story I’m writing saying it.
Today wanted to check if “Oodles” starts from long enough go. It does! Thanks Oodles.
To the above commenter: The article writer wasn’t comparing “Oodles” to ‘doodle’ or whatever ‘cabookle’ is.
Was tracing the word to “Boodle,” saying that’s old Dutch; and to “Kit and Caboodle,” -that originally 18th cent slang meaning “Lots and lots,” the article writer finds.
Adrien Peu:
January 31st, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Here’s another speculation: Oodles might derive from misdivision of ‘noodle’, like orange (Spanish ‘naranja’) resulted from ‘a norange’ being heard as ‘an orange’.
Now, what if ‘oodles’ happened when the German ‘nudel’ (a thin strip of dough) migrated into English as ‘noodle’? One doesn’t ordinarily eat just one of them. Is it a long leap to interpret picture a bowl of tangled pasta as ‘an oodle’?
Just a speculation, mind…