Meanings
- humorousnot comparablerareMade to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
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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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
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