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empoodled

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: humorous, not-comparable, rare

Examples

  • 2003, Todd McEwen, Who Sleeps with Katz? London: Granta, p. 134, most girls’ hairstyles of the late 1940s were hideous, the way the top looked like a volcanic plug, the rest of the hair empoodled around it

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From em- + poodle + -ed.