subs. (American).—See quot. 1869.
1869. The Overland Monthly, iii. 131, ‘South-Western Slang.’ A Texan never has a great quantity of any thing, but he has ‘scads’ of it, or ‘OODLES,’ or ‘DEAD OODLES,’ or ‘SCADOODLES,’ or ‘swads.’
1886. J. C. HARRIS, Little Compton, in The Century Magazine, xxxiii. 846. All you lack’s the feathers, and we’ve got OODLES of ’em right here.
