shirt-tail

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [shurt teyl]
- /ʃɜrt teɪl/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [shurt teyl]
- /ʃɜrt teɪl/

Definitions of shirt-tail word

noun shirt-tail the part of a shirt below the waistline. 1
noun shirt-tail Journalism. a brief item added at the end of a related newspaper story. Compare follow-up (def 3b). 1
adjective shirt-tail quite young and immature in behavior. 1
adjective shirt-tail Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. of distant relation, especially by marriage: some shirttail cousins I'd never met. 1
verb with object shirt-tail Informal. to append or add (an item) to a discussion or writing: The tariff concessions were shirttailed onto the trade bill. 1
countable noun shirt-tail Shirt-tails are the long parts of a shirt below the waist. 0

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Origin of shirt-tail

First appearance:

before 1835

One of the 34% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1835-45; shirt + tail1

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Parts of speech for Shirt-tail

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Shirt-tail

shirt-tail popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 51% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

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