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empoodled

empoodled adjective: made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.

Adjective

empoodled (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, rare) Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
    • by a stroke of fortune that stuns me to this day I found myself rooms in that very house (which was kept by a retired brigadier of lascivious tendencies, and his empoodled wife).1974, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in Conundrum, Penguin, published 1987, pages 59-60
    • 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 it2003, Todd McEwen, Who Sleeps with Katz? London: Granta, p. 134

Origin of empoodled

From em- + poodle + -ed.

Questions about empoodled

What does empoodled mean?
Empoodled means made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
What part of speech is empoodled?
Empoodled is an adjective.

Words near empoodled in the dictionary

  1. empoisons
  2. empolder
  3. empoldered
  4. empoldering
  5. empolders
  6. empoodled
  7. Empordà
  8. emporetic
  9. emporeutic
  10. emporia
  11. emporial

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