scads (root: scad)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scads, n.pl. US colloq. large quantities.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

scads

abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, batch, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, considerable, copiousness, deal, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, gobs, good deal, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, gush, heap, heaps, jillion, landslide, lashings, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, loads, lot, lots, luxuriance, maximum, mess, million, mint, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, oodles, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, pack, peck, pile, piles, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pot, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, shower, sight, slew, slews, spate, stack, stacks, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, teemingness, thousand, tidy sum, trillion, wad, wads, wealth, whole slew