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Definition: Poodle |
PoodleNoun1. An intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poodle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Poodle \Poo"dle\, noun. [from German expression pudel.]. (references) |
Synonym: PoodleSynonym: poodle dog (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Poodle |
| English words defined with "poodle": large poodle ♦ miniature poodle ♦ standard poodle ♦ toy poodle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You are coming back with me to Seattle where I will demand a full pardon, a parade, and a little pink poodle. On a keychain (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) You could be walking down the street tomorrow, feeling good about yourself, drink free, drug free, looking forward to the future and somebody accidentally nudges their poodle off of a 75th floor ledge (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) Uh, pledge to be your friend, and your wife, and your confidant, and your sex poodle (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You fight like a poodle. (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) Shave my poodle! (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Doings of a Poodle (1907) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ludwig Baumann, Home Furnishings Exhibit. Poodle on chair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Poodle" by Adam Brown Commentary: "This is a noodle in a pool - poodle. :)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption |
 | Poodle barking. |
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| "Poodle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.90% of the time. "Poodle" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.9% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "poodle": large poodle ♦ miniature poodle ♦ poodle dog ♦ standard poodle ♦ toy poodle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "poodle": poodle-boy, poodle-clipper, poodle-headed, poodle-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
poodle | 3,385 | poodle dog | 87 |
toy poodle | 1,052 | poodle grooming | 80 |
teacup poodle | 656 | al hat lyrics poodle weird | 73 |
standard poodle | 504 | teacup poodle for sale | 68 |
poodle hat | 423 | standard poodle breeders | 67 |
poodle skirt | 360 | picture toy poodle | 63 |
poodle rescue | 257 | toy poodle breeders | 57 |
miniature poodle | 247 | america club poodle | 54 |
al hat poodle weird | 182 | maltese poodle | 54 |
tea cup poodle | 149 | toy poodle puppy | 53 |
poodle puppy | 142 | standard poodle rescue | 51 |
hat lyrics poodle | 140 | al hat poodle weird yankovic | 46 |
picture of poodle | 128 | parti poodle | 45 |
poodle breeders | 112 | teacup poodle puppy | 41 |
poodle for sale | 106 | poodle skirt pattern | 40 |
poodle mix | 104 | poodle pup | 35 |
french poodle | 99 | cut poodle | 32 |
pink poodle | 91 | poodle adoption | 32 |
tiny toy poodle | 90 | poodle photo | 32 |
toy poodle for sale | 88 | standard poodle puppy | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "poodle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qen qimedredhur. (various references) | |
Arabic | كلب ذكي أجعد الشعر, بودل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пудел. (various references) | |
Czech | pudlík, pudl. (various references) | |
Finnish | villakoira. (various references) | |
French | caniche. (various references) | |
German | Pudel (Miss, poodles). (various references) | |
Greek | σγουρόμαλλο σκυλάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פודל, צמרון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pudli, göndörszőrű uszkár. (various references) | |
Italian | barbone (long beard, tramp), barboncino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブ男 (beggar, homeless, pool bar, powder, puma, swimming pool, ugly man). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プードル (powder). (various references) | |
Manx | moddey Frangagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodlepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raça de cão (cocker spaniel, collie, fila indiano). (various references) | |
Romanian | pudel. (various references) | |
Russian | пудель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pudlica. (various references) | |
Spanish | perro de lanas. (various references) | |
Swedish | pudel. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaniş (barbet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пудель. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chó x. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Low German | 800-1100 | Pudel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "poodle": poodles. (additional references) | |
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"Poodle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joodjee, moodle, oodle, Opaldce, opcode, opole, Oppdal, Padome, piadle, poddle, podel, podl, podle, podler, Podolia, podule, Poldi, poldie, poodie, poodled, poole, poople, pootle, Pudley, toodle, Toodleoo, yoodle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "poodle" (pronounced puw"dul) |
| 4 | -uw" d u l | Boodle, caboodle, Doodle, feudal, noodle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, dwindle, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: looped, pooled. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-o-p" | |
-1 letter: looed, loped, poled. | |
-2 letters: dole, dope, lode, loop, lope, oleo, oped, pled, plod, pole, polo, pood, pool. | |
-3 letters: del, doe, dol, eld, led, loo, lop, ode, old, ole, ope, ped, pod, pol. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, el, lo, od, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-o-p" | |
+1 letter: blooped, pleopod, poodles, spooled. | |
+2 letters: clodpole, dolloped, levodopa, lolloped, pedology, pleopods, poolside, potholed, prologed, woodpile. | |
+3 letters: carpooled, clodpoles, codevelop, coplotted, doorplate, downslope, duopolies, lampooned, levodopas, loopholed, outpolled, pedologic, platooned, podzolize, poolsides, potboiled, potholder, precooled, prologued, prolonged, pureblood, scolloped, topsoiled, woodpiles. | |
+4 letters: apologised, apologized, cephalopod, clodhopper, codevelops, coemployed, complotted, composedly, copyholder, doorplates, flapdoodle, indophenol, outplodded, outplotted, pedologies, pedologist, peoplehood, photolyzed, podzolized, podzolizes, polyhedron, polypodies, potholders, prologized, protocoled, pseudocoel, purebloods, snowplowed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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