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.

Other Words From

• un·tailed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tailed¹

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

Example Sentences

Identifying the most valuable long and short-tailed keywords, capturing user intent and expert placement of excellent coverage are important pieces of the puzzle.

From Search Engine Land

Yinpterochiropterans dwell in the Eastern Hemisphere and include flying foxes as well as a few other families such as the horseshoe and mouse-tailed bats.

From Popular-Science

Broad-striped vontsiras appeared in 31 captures, while the ring-tailed species showed up in just 16.

From Science News For Students

She and the magazine’s editors helped come up with the car’s name, evoking the short-tailed Manx cat that the car vaguely resembled.

From Washington Post

Given the small sample sizes, we also use a fat-tailed distribution for many of the error components, including the national Election Day error, to reflect the small — but not zero — possibility of a larger error than what we’ve seen historically.

From FiveThirtyEight

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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