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Related topics: Animalspoo·dle /ˈpuːdl/ noun [countable] 1. HBAa dog with thick curly hair 鬈毛狗，贵妇犬2. be somebody’s poodle British English informalOBEY if someone is another person’s poodle, they always do what the other person tells them to do 当某人的走狗[走卒]Examples from the Corpuspoodle• She had also taken my advice and acquired a poodle puppy.• The playwright pounces upon the gags like a poodle going after the petits fours.• It had a faintly woolly look to it, like a poodle.• I had my miniature poodle with me, of course.• In any case, whatever the rule is, an exception should be made for my poodle as well.• It has to be said poodles suffer from something of an image problem in some quarters.Origin poodle (1800-1900) German pudel, from pudelhund “dog that splashes in water”poo·dle nounChineseSyllable a curly Corpus thick dog with hair |