doodle, oodles, rice noodles, rice sticks,

But hubris has a nasty habit of breeding disaster, particularly when combined with oodles of cheap debt. (One oft-ignored point is that Chinese companies such as Anbang have expanded their leverage at startling speed recently.) If I had to make a bet, I’d wager that sooner or later some of these Chinese companies will indeed go bust, along with their lenders; and, inevitably, those trophy assets — such as hotels — will be resold again too.


For Better Pastas, Try Rice Noodles
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Rice noodles, also called rice sticks, are more substantial than traditional semolina and contain fewer calories per serving.




During a two-year period, Google captured oodles of Wi-Fi data worldwide as part of its Street View program. But why? Blame the engineering ethos that's prevalent at high-technology companies like Google. You know the "more is more" mindset: more bells ...

IN 2010 Oracle accused Google of pilfering its intellectual property (IP) for use in the Android mobile platform. It has since presented oodles of forensic evidence, including e-mails among Google executives and bits of allegedly copied program code. On May 7th a federal jury in San Francisco found in its favour. Sort of.

doodle

VERB

[NO OBJECT]

• Scribble absent-mindedly.

  ‘he was only doodling in the margin’

NOUN

• A rough drawing made absent-mindedly.

  ‘the text was interspersed with doodles’

Origin

Early 17th century (originally as a noun denoting a fool, later as a verb in the sense ‘make a fool of, cheat’): from Low German dudeltopf, dudeldopp ‘simpleton’. Current senses date from the 1930s.

Pronunciation

doodle

/ˈduːd(ə)l/

noodle[noo・dle¹]

• 発音記号[núːdl]

[名]((通例〜s))ヌードル：小麦粉などで作っためん類

rice noodle
ビーフン 米粉

chicken noodle soup
ヌードル入りのチキンスープ.

［ドイツ語Nudel］

oodles

(ūd'lz)
pl.n. Informal
A great amount or number: oodles of fun.
Our local bakery has oodles of desserts available for purchase.
if only I had oodles of cash

[Origin unknown.]

oodles of ketchup
大量のケチャップ.