toodles, int. U.S. colloq. (freq. humorous).
Brit. /ˈtuːdlz/, U.S. /ˈtudlz/
[‹ toodle- (in toodle-oo int.) + -s suffix2.]
= toodle-oo int.
| 1965 D. C. Foote Gidget: now there's a Face (ABC TV script) (1st Ser.) ii. 39 Tom: Hey..where you going? Gidget: Got a date with a Dolphin..named Dolores... Toodles. 1972 J. Jacobs & W. Casey Grease i. vi. 47 Toodles! 1985 T. J. Parker Laguna Heat (1986) x. 105 ‘Perhaps we'll have breakfast again? Toodles.’ He hung up. 2006 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Jan. 1 Recent changes such as the imminent shuttering of Filene's have left many of us inured to saying toodles to tradition. |