cockapoo
Americannoun
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cockapoos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cockapoo
First recorded in 1960–65; cock(er) 1 + poo(dle), with -a- from cockatoo
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He added that while many people knew poodles and spaniels required a lot of exercise, "that same kind of consideration might not necessarily be given by everyone towards a cockapoo".
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
I have a cockapoo, Bobby Rhubarb, she’s 4 1/2, so my life kind of revolves around her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
The dog, Bobby Rhubarb, a shiny black cockapoo, greeted me with a waist-high leap when I visited Lewis recently at her home at the end of a wildflower-lined canyon road in the San Fernando Valley.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
Grew lives in New York with her wife, son and "energetic cockapoo," it says on Man's website.
From Reuters ● May 11, 2023
The cockapoo in photo c has curly hair, like the poodle, and short legs, like the cocker spaniel.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
They compared popular designer doodle breeds - cockapoos, labradoodles and cavapoos - to their purebred parent breeds across multiple behaviour categories.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
As her two cockapoos compete to climb on to her lap, she smiles.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Now lives: In a three-story loft in the Southgate neighborhood of London with their parents, three siblings and two cockapoos.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
You’ll find plenty of recipes online, although you will also have to put up with a lot of watercolour portraits of cockapoos, but you’re basically just combining a protein source and carbs.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2019
Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just cockapoos?
From Washington Post
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