bobtail
noun
a short or docked tail.
bobtails
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present tense formof bobtail (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu' de rabbits.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
“If you cannot see the difference between that frumpish gown of yours, with its little bobtails and fringes, and those pretty dresses before us, I must say you are as blind as a bat, Mattie.”
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Sometimes he calls the Academicians, "Sons of Canvas;" sometimes "Tagrags and bobtails of the sacred brush."
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
That’s what father always says to visitors who bring bobtails and chokers.
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn
The wonderful Wizard had asked to join the party, and with him came his friend the Shaggy Man, who was shaggy but not ragged, being dressed in fine silks with satin shags and bobtails.
From The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
