Other forms: poodles
A poodle is a clever dog with a thick curly coat. A standard poodle, a toy poodle, a poodle cut.
It was bred as a water retriever, and the absurd clip is functional in origin, since the pompoms kept the joints warm while the rest was shaved for swimming. The word is German and comes from a verb meaning to splash.
1nounpoodleA clever dog with a thick curly coat.
“Their white poodle has just had its curly coat trimmed.”
poodle is a dog.
German Pudel is short for Pudelhund, from a Low German verb meaning to splash in water.
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poodle
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From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German - term Pudel, Puudel (“puddle”), from the imitative of the sound term pudeln (“to splash about”). 1773 in the Q38904. The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA