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# poodle

«poodle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A dog with thick curly hair, often clipped into fancy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a poodle, poodles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dog with thick curly hair, often clipped into fancy shapes; poodles come in toy, miniature and standard sizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#m1)

2) (UK, informal, scornful) A person or country that always obeys someone more powerful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a poodle is a clever, popular pet dog. In stories a pampered poodle often wears a bow. In UK newspapers calling someone «a poodle» means they do whatever their boss says.

### examples

- Our neighbour's poodle has white curly fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x1)
- Poodles are clever and easy to train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x2)
- The poodle wore a little pink bow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x3)
- A standard poodle is much bigger than a toy poodle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x4)
- Poodles don't shed much hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x5)
- The newspaper called the minister the prime minister's poodle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x6)
- A magnificent Poodle appeared, walking on his hind legs just like a man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/#x7)

### note

Poodles were bred as water dogs; their clipped coat helped them swim. Plural: poodles. The scornful sense is political slang.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poodle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poodle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.