Definitions for poodles

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poodles poo·dle

Spelling: [pood-l]

IPA: /ˈpud l/

Poodles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in poodles (deloops).

Definitions for poodles

noun

1. one of a breed of very active dogs, probably originating in Germany but regarded as the national dog of France, having long, thick, frizzy or curly hair usually trimmed in standard patterns, occurring in three varieties (standard, miniature, and toy) differing only in size, and originally used as a water retriever.

Origin of poodles

1815-25; German Pudel, short for Pudelhund, equivalent to pudel(n) to splash (see puddle) + Hund hound¹

Examples for poodles

The poodle remained with him a day or two, and then made his escape.

Mrs. Ranny asked with an enthusiasm hitherto reserved for her poodle.

Darren Criss of Glee guest stars in the video as the angry bulldog boyfriend of the poodle.

He insisted that far from being America's poodle on this, he was an enthusiastic collaborator with Mr. Bush.

And then there is Marissa; Annabelle says Marissa is like a poodle, “probably pink.”

While Steinbeck journeyed with his loyal French poodle, Buzzell has only a 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente as a companion.

“I am as far from a harasser as you could be,” she said in a phone call from her home, as her poodle mix barked in the background.

This trainer of bull-dogs was the submissive slave of a poodle.

The sagacity of the poodle is strongly shown by the following fact.

Nor is this a solitary instance of the extraordinary sagacity of the poodle.