POODLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poodle mean? 

• POODLE (noun)
  The noun POODLE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: POODLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POODLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

poodle; poodle dog

Hypernyms ("poodle" is a kind of...):

Canis familiaris; dog; domestic dog (a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poodle"):

toy poodle (the breed of very small poodles)

miniature poodle (a breed of small poodles)

standard poodle (a breed or medium-sized poodles)

large poodle (the largest breed of poodle)

 Context examples 

Then he went away to his own country, and the poodle had to run after him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Miniature Poodle is a medium-sized poodle with a height of 11-15 inches and weighing 15-17 pounds.

(Miniature Poodle, NCI Thesaurus)

"No, I don't," was Jo's decided answer, as she petted the fat poodle, whom she had adopted, out of respect to his former mistress.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You shall become a black poodle and have a gold collar round your neck, and shall eat burning coals, till the flames burst forth from your throat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Josy-phine! and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And when he had spoken these words, the old man was changed into a poodle dog, and had a gold collar round his neck, and the cooks were ordered to bring up some live coals, and these he ate, until the flames broke forth from his throat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Jo liked his good breeding, and didn't mind having a laugh at Aunt March, so she gave him a lively description of the fidgety old lady, her fat poodle, the parrot that talked Spanish, and the library where she reveled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that Tom Brown was a brick, regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bearlike but affectionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)