empoodled
adjEtymology From em- + poodle + -ed.
- 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).1974, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in Conundrum, Penguin, published 1987, pages 59-60:
- 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