poodle

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  1. noun Any of a breed of dogs originally developed in Europe as hunting dogs, having thick curly hair of varying color, and classified by shoulder height into standard, miniature, and toy varieties.

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  • Jonathan Haidt is an anti-gun activist who thinks a poodle is his nephew. —  Blogger News Network
  • Here is the other McCain poodle, the PIG from CT is doing to fix the economy. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • There are hundreds of thousands of dogs registered with the American Kennel Club, and the poodle is the most popular, with the German shepherd taking second place.
  • Because said election results made such a monkey of the United States and their choice of puppet / poodle, the lying American & British governments (and almost all of their respective media), were / are once again only too willing and eager to create and to perpetuate, yet one more myth. —  How This Old Brit Sees It ...
  • My standard poodle was an active healthy dog, running and playing on Sunday and by Thursday she was dead from acute renal failure.
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  1. German Pudel, short for Pudelhund : Low German pudeln, to splash about (from pudel, puddle) + German Hund, dog.

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  1. = Swedish Danish pudel = Dutch poedel(-hond), from Low German pudel, German pudel, pudel-hund, a poodle, poodle-dog; prob. from Low German pudeln, puddeln, waddle; cf. German pudeln, splash. Cf. puddle.
 

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