What is the origin of the word "oodles"?

Noodles for sure. There is a soup called “Oodles o noodles” and it is as the name says, an oodle of noodles. Pretty good soup

Here are two of the possibilities. It could be a shortening of the Dutch word boedel, meaning property, or it could have come from the French “beaucoup” as corrupted in the southern states “boocoos”.

It all started when a poodle got his P cut off.

And why is there never just one of them? We don’t ever speak of a (singular) oodle.

When you’re finished with “oodles” (which did not come from “noodles”), how about “scads”?

oodles

“lots,” 1869, Amer.Eng., perhaps from the caboodle in kit and caboodle.

@jeruba When you get rid of all but one of your odds and ends, what are you left with?

Great question, @Zen! Unfortunately I am not likely to need the answer to that in this lifetime. I have a greater accumulation of both ends and odds than I can possibly deal with in all the shakes of a lamb’s tail.

I think my Mom started it.

@marauder76
OUCH! Let’s leave the p’s and the b’s on our dogs please.