miniature poodle
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- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪtʃər ˈpuːdəl/
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poodle miniatura
- He is a miniature poodle; we think he is around 9 years old now.
Examples
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She tucked her hair into a flowered cotton scarf and took out Buni, her miniature poodle, for his morning trot around the block.
Fiction book (1995) -
At 4:38 p.m., a woman called the police to report that her miniature poodle was attacked by a larger dog.
Blog text (28) -
The owner of the attacking dog agreed to pay the miniature poodle's owner's $1,300 veterinarian bill.
Blog text (28) -
On a visit from college, I drove up to my grandparents' home in Laurel Canyon as Grandpa and Beau-beau, the miniature poodle he spoiled rotten, jogged across the road.
Fiction book (1992) -
Olivia trained her miniature poodle to do tricks.
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Tyler, a miniature poodle, runs through his paces as he is shown by Diane Gaw of Mt. Pleasant.
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She tucked her hair into a flowered cotton scarf and took out Buni, her miniature poodle, for his morning trot around the block.
Synonyms
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A smart dog with dense curly fur often kept as a pet or shown at dog shows
Antonyms
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A large intelligent dog with curly fur often kept as a pet and used in dog shows
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small/specially small variety of poodle' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'miniature' (exceptionally small) with 'poodle' (a dog breed); no idiomatic shift or metaphor is involved. This ADJ+NOUN compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Miniature poodle comes from the words miniature, meaning 'very small', and poodle, a dog that long ago worked in water and fetched birds. So the name gives a clear image of a small, smart, curly-coated poodle, which is why it means that small breed today.