Meaning & use
oodles of noodles
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Meaning
phrasefixed phraseinformalhumorous
A playful way of saying a very large amount of noodles, made catchy by the rhyme.
Grammar: Treated as a plural group: there were oodles of noodles on the table.
Patterns
- oodles of noodles
- get oodles of noodles
The restaurant promised oodles of noodles for one low price.
We made oodles of noodles for the whole class and still had leftovers.
The kids cheered when Dad said there were oodles of noodles for dinner.
Common combinations
- serve oodles of noodles
- The cafeteria served oodles of noodles on Fridays.
- slurp oodles of noodles
- We slurped oodles of noodles in the rain.
- cook oodles of noodles
- I cooked oodles of noodles for the picnic.
- oodles of noodles for dinner
- There were oodles of noodles for dinner and nobody complained.
Synonyms and how they differ
- loads of noodles
- Loads of noodles is also casual but plainer, with no rhyme to make it sound playful.
- lots of noodles
- Lots of noodles is the neutral, everyday way to say it, with no humor.
- heaps of noodles
- Heaps of noodles is similarly informal but has no rhyme.
Word family
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase oodles of noodles correctly?
Choose one answer.
The phrase is a playful way to describe a large quantity of noodles, so it fits a noodle bar. The other options use it in settings where it makes no sense.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “oodles of noodles”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.