Definition of tail

"tail" in the noun sense

1. tail

the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

2. fag end, tail, tail end

the time of the last part of something

"the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"

"the tail of the storm"

3. tail, tail end

any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

4. buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

"he deserves a good kick in the butt"

"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

5. tail, shadow, shadower

a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

6. tail

usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head

7. tail, tail assembly, empennage

the rear part of an aircraft

8. stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail

the rear part of a ship

"tail" in the verb sense

1. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track

go after with the intent to catch

"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"

"the dog chased the rabbit"

2. dock, tail, bob

remove or shorten the tail of an animal

3. tail

remove the stalk of fruits or berries

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Quotations for tail

She hath a gad-bee in her tail. [ Proverb ]

In confusion; neither head nor tail. [ Proverb ]

Can you make a pipe of a pig's tail? [ Proverb ]

Let every herring hang by its own tail. [ Irish Proverb ]

Woman is made of tongue, as fox of tail. [ Proverb ]

No dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. [ Italian Proverb ]

Make not your tail broader than your wings. [ Proverb ]

She goes as if she cracked nuts with her tail. [ Proverb ]

To swallow an ox, and be choked with the tail. [ Proverb ]

To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]

Let him that owns the cow take her by the tail. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a hunting-horn of a fox's-tail. [ Proverb ]

You can never make a good shaft of a pig's tail. [ Proverb ]

It is natural to a greyhound to have a long tail. [ Proverb ]

Cutoff the head and tail, and throw the rest away. [ Proverb ]

The higher the ape goes the more he shows his tail. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you buy the cow, take the tail into the bargain. [ Proverb ]

She is like a cat, she will play with her own tail. [ Proverb ]

She who often looks in the glass thinks of her tail. [ Proverb ]

Better's the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. [ Proverb ]

Like lambs, you do nothing but suck and wag your tail. [ Proverb ]

It amounts to no more than the tail of a roasted horse. [ Proverb ]

Better the head of the yeomen than the tail of the gentry. [ Proverb ]

If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeak. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. [ Proverb ]

There is as much hold of his words, as of a wet eel's tail. [ Proverb ]

If one, two or three tell you, you are an ass, put on a tail. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail. [ Proverb ]

It is better to be the head of a lizard than the tail of a lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the face with his tail. [ Proverb ]

Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth but a sting in its tail. [ H. Ballou ]

He bought the fox-skin for threepence, and sold the tail for a shilling. [ Proverb ]

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]

To make love only when signing the marriage certificate, is to take romance by the tail. [ Moliere ]

The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]

He that has too little wants wings to fly, he that has too much is encumbered with his large tail. [ Proverb ]

It is as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as it is for a peacock to spread his tail. [ Proverb ]

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. [ Victor Hugo ]

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. [ Charles Lamb ]

Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out. You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

tail in Scrabble®

The word tail is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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tail in Words With Friends™

The word tail is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words containing the sequence tail

Word Growth involving tail

Shorter words in tail

ai ail

ta

Longer words containing tail

bobtail bobtails

bristletail bristletails

broomtail

browntail browntails

brushtail

cattail cattails

coattail coattails

cocktail cocktails

cottontail cottontails

curtail curtailed

curtail curtailers

curtail curtailing

curtail curtailment curtailments

curtail curtails

detail detailed detailedly

detail detailed detailedness

detail detailed nondetailed

detail detailed overdetailed

detail detailed underdetailed

detail detailed undetailed

detail detailer detailers overdetailers

detail detailer detailers underdetailers

detail detailer overdetailer overdetailers

detail detailer underdetailer underdetailers

detail detailing detailings

detail detailing overdetailing

detail detailing underdetailing

detail details overdetails

detail details underdetails

detail overdetail overdetailed

detail overdetail overdetailer overdetailers

detail overdetail overdetailing

detail overdetail overdetails

detail underdetail underdetailed

detail underdetail underdetailer underdetailers

detail underdetail underdetailing

detail underdetail underdetails

diptail diptails

dogstail

dovetail dovetailed

dovetail dovetailer dovetailers

dovetail dovetailing dovetailings

dovetail dovetails

ducktail ducktails

entail entailed

entail entailing

entail entailment

entail entails pentails

entail entails wrentails

entail pentail pentails

entail wrentail wrentails

fantail fantailed

fantail fantails

fishtail fishtailed

fishtail fishtailing

fishtail fishtails

hairtail hairtails

hightail hightailed

hightail hightailing

hightail hightails

horntail horntails thorntails

horntail thorntail thorntails

horsetail horsetails

milltail milltails

oxtail foxtail foxtailed

oxtail foxtail foxtails

oxtail oxtails foxtails

pigtail pigtailed

pigtail pigtails

pintail pintails

ploughtail ploughtails

plowtail plowtails

ponytail ponytailed

ponytail ponytails

quilltail

rattail rattailed

rattail rattails

retail nonretail

retail retailed

retail retailer retailers

retail retailing retailings

retail retailor retailored

retail retailor retailoring

retail retailor retailors

retail retails

ringtail ringtails springtails

ringtail springtail springtails

rubytail rubytails

scissortail scissortails

sharptail sharptailed

shirttail shirttails

shorttail shorttailed

sickletail sickletails

silktail silktails

spinetail spinetails

sticktail sticktails

stifftail stifftails

swallowtail swallowtails

swingletail swingletails

swordtail swordtails

tailbite tailbites

tailbiting

tailboard tailboards

tailbone tailbones

tailed curtailed

tailed detailed detailedly

tailed detailed detailedness

tailed detailed nondetailed

tailed detailed overdetailed

tailed detailed underdetailed

tailed detailed undetailed

tailed dovetailed

tailed entailed

tailed fantailed

tailed fishtailed

tailed foxtailed

tailed hightailed

tailed pigtailed

tailed ponytailed

tailed rattailed

tailed retailed

tailed sharptailed

tailed shorttailed

tailfan tailfans

tailfin tailfins

tailfirst

tailforemost

tailgate tailgated

tailgate tailgater tailgaters

tailgate tailgates

tailgating

tailgun tailgunned

tailgun tailgunner tailgunners

tailgun tailgunning

tailgun tailguns

tailhead tailheads

tailing curtailing

tailing detailing detailings

tailing detailing overdetailing

tailing detailing underdetailing

tailing dovetailing dovetailings

tailing entailing

tailing fishtailing

tailing hightailing

tailing retailing retailings

tailing tailings detailings

tailing tailings dovetailings

tailing tailings retailings

taillamp taillamps

tailless taillessly

tailless taillessness

taillight taillights

taillike

tailor retailor retailored

tailor retailor retailoring

tailor retailor retailors

tailor tailored retailored

tailor tailoress tailoresses

tailor tailoring retailoring

tailor tailoring tailorings

tailor tailorisation

tailor tailorise tailorised

tailor tailorise tailorises

tailor tailorization

tailor tailorize tailorized

tailor tailorize tailorizes

tailor tailorless

tailor tailorlike

tailor tailormade

tailor tailors retailors

tailpiece tailpieces

tailpin tailpins

tailpipe tailpiped

tailpipe tailpipes

tailpiping

tailplane tailplanes

tailrace tailraces

tailrope tailropes

tails bobtails

tails bristletails

tails browntails

tails cattails

tails coattails

tails cocktails

tails cottontails

tails curtails

tails details overdetails

tails details underdetails

tails diptails

tails dovetails

tails ducktails

tails entails pentails

tails entails wrentails

tails fantails

tails fishtails

tails hairtails

tails hightails

tails horntails thorntails

tails horsetails

tails milltails

tails oxtails foxtails

tails pigtails

tails pintails

tails ploughtails

tails plowtails

tails ponytails

tails rattails

tails retails

tails ringtails springtails

tails rubytails

tails scissortails

tails shirttails

tails sickletails

tails silktails

tails spinetails

tails sticktails

tails stifftails

tails swallowtails

tails swingletails

tails swordtails

tails tailshaft tailshafts

tails tailskid tailskids

tails tailslide tailslides

tails tailspin tailspinned

tails tailspin tailspinning

tails tailspin tailspins

tails tailspun

tails tailstock tailstocks

tails tailstrike tailstrikes

tails veiltails

tails wagtails

tails whiptails

tails whitetails

tails yellowtails

tailward tailwards

tailwater tailwaters

tailwheel tailwheels

tailwind tailwinds

tailwise

tailwort tailworts

veiltail veiltails

wagtail wagtails

whiptail whiptails

whitetail whitetails

yellowtail yellowtails