Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

empoodled

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-poo-dled
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"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)."
"2003, Todd McEwen, Who Sleeps with Katz? London: Granta, p. 134, 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 it"

Etymology

From em- + poodle + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: em
Suffix: poodle

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does empoodled mean?: Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
Where does empoodled come from?: From em- + poodle + -ed.

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