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View synonyms for tailed

tailed

[ teyld ]

adjective

  1. having a tail. tails.
  2. having a tail tails of a specified kind (usually used in combination):

    a ring-tailed monkey.



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Other Words From

  • un·tailed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tailed1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; tail 1, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Israel high-tailed it to a campground in western Massachusetts, where he began to grow a beard.

Is bushy-tailed new GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan the right choice for Mitt Romney?

One British reporter who tailed him through the day said he was “somewhat robotic—not particularly presidential.”

To that end, you must be as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as possible.

Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch?

They were not the nervous, string-halt jacks of the prairies, but the smaller black-tailed variety.

The fat-rumped and the broad-tailed sheep are much more extensively diffused than any other.

Edwards has given a figure and description of this animal by the denomination of the pig-tailed ape.

With reverence I shall worship thee who art long-tailed like a horse, Agni, king of worship.

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