empoodled

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ poodle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

empoodled (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, rare) Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
    • 1974, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in Conundrum‎, Penguin, published 1987, pages 59-60:
      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
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