long-tailedadj.

Brit.

/ˌlɒŋˈteɪld/, U.S.

/ˈlɔŋˈˌteɪld/,

/ˈlɑŋˈˌteɪld/

Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and tailed adj.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, tailed adj.¹

Etymology: < long adj.¹ + tailed adj.¹

a. That has a long tail (in various senses of tail n.¹).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > train or tails

long-taileda1450

traineda1565

coat-tailed1902

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a long tail

long-taileda1450

long-tail1734

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [adjective] > form of specific letter

long-tailed1896

a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Claud.) (2009) 122 Þe froyte..of erþe and of trene..tokon at þis day offtyme grete harme, whate..by mystes, be mylnedewus, be grete wormus, be long-taylud [a1500 Gough long-taylet] flens.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 245 Ane lang taild beist, and grit with all.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 202 Thair land taillit gowne.

1655 in Edmondes' Comm. of Julius Cæsar (rev. ed.) v. xii. 115/2 They set forth of their Camp..with a long-tailed march.

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation vi. iii. 212/2 Black Oat..is light, lank, long tayled, and not so good as the White.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 404 The crested snake, and long-tailed crocodile.

1798 Monthly Visitor June 151 The two nations of one-eyed and long-tailed men.

1836 F. Fellowes Astron. for Beginners xx. 85 Are the comets now long-tailed or short-tailed?

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 108 Striped waistcoat, long-tailed coat, and low top-boots.

1896 Peterson Mag. Jan. 62/1 I shall have it printed in the old-fashioned way, long-tailed s and all.

1908 G. B. Sudworth Forest Trees Pacific Slope 340 The long-tailed, hairy fruits are inclosed in a tubular case.

1961 M. Sullivan Introd. Chinese Art ii. 46 A frieze of long-tailed birds fills the upper zone.

1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 241 I needed roundish ‘bearpaw’ snowshoes, not the long-tailed type they use in flat country.

2004 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 4 Massive long-tailed boats floating in the middle of swimming pools.

b. spec. in the names of animals.Earliest in long-tailed tit n. at Compounds.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective]

long-tailed1668

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 152 Long tailed tit.

1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. 86 The Red-Breasted Long-Tailed Finch..from Angola in Africa.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 544 The long-tailed Felis, with pencilled ears.

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 110 Long-tailed Condylure... Long-tailed Mole, Pen. Quad. 314.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xiii. 232 Long-tailed Humming Bird (Trochilus polytmus).

1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 1/3 Another beautiful butterfly—the long-tailed blue.

1929 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 11 104 The long-tailed skate is known so far by one example only.

1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 93 The long-tailed or prairie weasel has similar distribution and habitat to the badger.

2004 Conservation Action (N.Z. Dept. of Conservation) July 20/3 The Department of Conservation..and Forest and Bird hope the willows will help halt the decline of the long-tailed bat.

2. humorous. Of a word: having a long ending; (more generally) long, polysyllabic. Formerly also (of a speech): †tediously long, long-winded (obsolete).

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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > relating to other specific types of word

long-tailedc1550

communicable1583

unanalogical1755

learned1869

parasynetic1885

monorrhemic1939

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Thir lang tailit vordis, conturbabuntur,..innumerabilibus.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 262 It is said that this long taillit supplicatioun wes weill hard of by the bretheren of the generall assemblie.

1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 89 Hard long-tailed words, drawn from the Greek and Latin languages.

1817 ‘W. Whistlecraft’ & ‘R. Whistlecraft’ Prospectus National Work King Arthur i. vi With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine 20 She was so heartily tired of its long tailed verbs.

1902 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/3 Would not the combination—Demont-Breton-Worms-Baretta—be a little long-tailed, say, for a visiting card?

2001 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 5C It's a long-tailed word, but ‘psychopathology’ simply means any problem a person has with their brain or emotional system.

Compounds

† long-tailed Dick n. Obsolete rare the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus.

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1833 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 47 Found in the garden the nest of a ‘long-tailed Dick’, with 3 eggs.

long-tailed duck n. a migratory sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, the male of which has chiefly white and black plumage and a long pointed tail, breeding in northern Eurasia and northern North America.

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1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 156 The Long-tailed Duck from Hudson's-Bay.

a1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1814) VIII. 93 (heading) Long-tailed duck. Anas glacialis.

1903 J. H. Studer Birds N. Amer. (new ed.) 21/1 The Long-tailed Duck passes on the eastern coast of the United States under the name of South-Southerly.

2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iv. 166 The appearance of cooler indicators such as mammoth, and northerly birds such as the long-tailed duck.

long-tailed field mouse n. the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus.

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1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 49 The long tailed Field Mouse.

1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 62 The Long-tailed Field-Mouse... Length of head and body three inches eight lines.

1920 F. Pitt Wild Creatures Garden & Hedgerow vi. 118 The long-tailed field mouse is a very neat, dainty creature.

2011 J. P. Rafferty Rats, Bats, & Xenarthrans iii. 62 The long-tailed field mouse (A. sylvaticus) is one of the most intensively studied species in the genus.

long-tailed macaque n. a macaque monkey, Macaca fascicularis (family Cercopithecidae), native to South-East Asia and having an unusually long tail; also called crab-eating macaque.

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1892 R. B. Sanyal Hand-bk. Managem. Animals in Captivity Lower Bengal 24 The Rhesus and the long-tailed Macaque have bred and interbred in this garden.

1969 Ld. Medway Wild Mammals Malaya 50/2 Long-tailed or Crab-eating Macaque. Kera. Macaca fascicularis.

2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 164 Long-tailed macaque monkeys and monitor lizards are a pretty common sight.

long-tailed mag n. English regional (now historical) = long-tailed tit n.

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1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, Shells, & Plants Dorsetshire 10/1 The Long-tailed Tit-mouse... Called by many Long-tailed Mag.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 31 British Long-tailed Titmouse... This bird owes its name to its great length of tail, hence it is called Long-tailed Mag or Long-pod (Midlands).

1996 P. Shirley Urban Wildlife 69 [It] used to be known as ‘long-tailed mag’ or ‘long-tailed pie’.

long-tailed pair n. Electronics a pair of identical transistors (or valves) with their emitters (or cathodes) connected together to a large resistor and typically with their collectors (or anodes) connected to equal loads; cf. long-tail pair n.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > circuit elements or components > with specific arrangement

quadripole1928

long-tailed pair1942

long-tail pair1946

totem pole1953

1942 Electronic Engin. 15 103/3 Instead of a fixed potential being applied to one grid of the ‘long-tailed pair’ a scalariform voltage..is applied.

1970 J. Shepherd et al. Higher Electr. Engin. (ed. 2) xxii. 713 In this method drift in one part of a circuit is balanced against drift in another part. The long-tailed or emitter-coupled pair circuit..is an example.

2007 I. R. Sinclair & J. Dunton Pract. Electronics Handbk. (ed. 6) vii. 199 The longtailed pair is most effective when used as a balanced amplifier, with balanced inputs and outputs.

long-tailed tit n. (also long-tailed titmouse) a very small Eurasian songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail.Formerly classed as a true titmouse of the family Paridae, this bird is now placed with the bushtits in the family Aegithalidae.

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1668Long tailed tit [see sense 1b].

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 242 The long-tail'd Titmouse.

1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 106 The delicate long-tailed titmouse.

1829 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Art 27 441 The eggs with a white ground are those of the European oriole, the long-tailed tit.., and the common swallow.

1884 Cent. Mag. May 46/1 The long-tailed titmouse lays from ten to twelve eggs.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 582 As many as 2,379 feathers have been counted in the nest of the long-tailed tit.

2009 Independent 25 Mar. 18/2 The tiny long-tailed tit is so small—the tail is longer than the body—that it is very vulnerable to cold weather.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	long-tailed
释义	long-tailedadj. Brit. /ˌlɒŋˈteɪld/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˈˌteɪld/, /ˈlɑŋˈˌteɪld/ Forms: see long adj.¹ and n.¹ and tailed adj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.¹, tailed adj.¹ Etymology: < long adj.¹ + tailed adj.¹ 1. a. That has a long tail (in various senses of tail n.¹). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > train or tails long-taileda1450 traineda1565 coat-tailed1902 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a long tail long-taileda1450 long-tail1734 society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [adjective] > form of specific letter long-tailed1896 a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Claud.) (2009) 122 Þe froyte..of erþe and of trene..tokon at þis day offtyme grete harme, whate..by mystes, be mylnedewus, be grete wormus, be long-taylud [a1500 Gough long-taylet] flens. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 245 Ane lang taild beist, and grit with all. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 202 Thair land taillit gowne. 1655 in Edmondes' Comm. of Julius Cæsar (rev. ed.) v. xii. 115/2 They set forth of their Camp..with a long-tailed march. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation vi. iii. 212/2 Black Oat..is light, lank, long tayled, and not so good as the White. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 404 The crested snake, and long-tailed crocodile. 1798 Monthly Visitor June 151 The two nations of one-eyed and long-tailed men. 1836 F. Fellowes Astron. for Beginners xx. 85 Are the comets now long-tailed or short-tailed? 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 108 Striped waistcoat, long-tailed coat, and low top-boots. 1896 Peterson Mag. Jan. 62/1 I shall have it printed in the old-fashioned way, long-tailed s and all. 1908 G. B. Sudworth Forest Trees Pacific Slope 340 The long-tailed, hairy fruits are inclosed in a tubular case. 1961 M. Sullivan Introd. Chinese Art ii. 46 A frieze of long-tailed birds fills the upper zone. 1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 241 I needed roundish ‘bearpaw’ snowshoes, not the long-tailed type they use in flat country. 2004 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 4 Massive long-tailed boats floating in the middle of swimming pools. b. spec. in the names of animals.Earliest in long-tailed tit n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] long-tailed1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 152 Long tailed tit. 1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. 86 The Red-Breasted Long-Tailed Finch..from Angola in Africa. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 544 The long-tailed Felis, with pencilled ears. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 110 Long-tailed Condylure... Long-tailed Mole, Pen. Quad. 314. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xiii. 232 Long-tailed Humming Bird (Trochilus polytmus). 1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 1/3 Another beautiful butterfly—the long-tailed blue. 1929 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 11 104 The long-tailed skate is known so far by one example only. 1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 93 The long-tailed or prairie weasel has similar distribution and habitat to the badger. 2004 Conservation Action (N.Z. Dept. of Conservation) July 20/3 The Department of Conservation..and Forest and Bird hope the willows will help halt the decline of the long-tailed bat. 2. humorous. Of a word: having a long ending; (more generally) long, polysyllabic. Formerly also (of a speech): †tediously long, long-winded (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > relating to other specific types of word long-tailedc1550 communicable1583 unanalogical1755 learned1869 parasynetic1885 monorrhemic1939 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Thir lang tailit vordis, conturbabuntur,..innumerabilibus. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 262 It is said that this long taillit supplicatioun wes weill hard of by the bretheren of the generall assemblie. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 89 Hard long-tailed words, drawn from the Greek and Latin languages. 1817 ‘W. Whistlecraft’ & ‘R. Whistlecraft’ Prospectus National Work King Arthur i. vi With long-tailed words in osity and ation. 1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine 20 She was so heartily tired of its long tailed verbs. 1902 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/3 Would not the combination—Demont-Breton-Worms-Baretta—be a little long-tailed, say, for a visiting card? 2001 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 5C It's a long-tailed word, but ‘psychopathology’ simply means any problem a person has with their brain or emotional system. Compounds † long-tailed Dick n. Obsolete rare the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. ΚΠ 1833 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 47 Found in the garden the nest of a ‘long-tailed Dick’, with 3 eggs. long-tailed duck n. a migratory sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, the male of which has chiefly white and black plumage and a long pointed tail, breeding in northern Eurasia and northern North America. ΚΠ 1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 156 The Long-tailed Duck from Hudson's-Bay. a1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1814) VIII. 93 (heading) Long-tailed duck. Anas glacialis. 1903 J. H. Studer Birds N. Amer. (new ed.) 21/1 The Long-tailed Duck passes on the eastern coast of the United States under the name of South-Southerly. 2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iv. 166 The appearance of cooler indicators such as mammoth, and northerly birds such as the long-tailed duck. long-tailed field mouse n. the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus. ΚΠ 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 49 The long tailed Field Mouse. 1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 62 The Long-tailed Field-Mouse... Length of head and body three inches eight lines. 1920 F. Pitt Wild Creatures Garden & Hedgerow vi. 118 The long-tailed field mouse is a very neat, dainty creature. 2011 J. P. Rafferty Rats, Bats, & Xenarthrans iii. 62 The long-tailed field mouse (A. sylvaticus) is one of the most intensively studied species in the genus. long-tailed macaque n. a macaque monkey, Macaca fascicularis (family Cercopithecidae), native to South-East Asia and having an unusually long tail; also called crab-eating macaque. ΚΠ 1892 R. B. Sanyal Hand-bk. Managem. Animals in Captivity Lower Bengal 24 The Rhesus and the long-tailed Macaque have bred and interbred in this garden. 1969 Ld. Medway Wild Mammals Malaya 50/2 Long-tailed or Crab-eating Macaque. Kera. Macaca fascicularis. 2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 164 Long-tailed macaque monkeys and monitor lizards are a pretty common sight. long-tailed mag n. English regional (now historical) = long-tailed tit n. ΚΠ 1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, Shells, & Plants Dorsetshire 10/1 The Long-tailed Tit-mouse... Called by many Long-tailed Mag. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 31 British Long-tailed Titmouse... This bird owes its name to its great length of tail, hence it is called Long-tailed Mag or Long-pod (Midlands). 1996 P. Shirley Urban Wildlife 69 [It] used to be known as ‘long-tailed mag’ or ‘long-tailed pie’. long-tailed pair n. Electronics a pair of identical transistors (or valves) with their emitters (or cathodes) connected together to a large resistor and typically with their collectors (or anodes) connected to equal loads; cf. long-tail pair n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > circuit elements or components > with specific arrangement quadripole1928 long-tailed pair1942 long-tail pair1946 totem pole1953 1942 Electronic Engin. 15 103/3 Instead of a fixed potential being applied to one grid of the ‘long-tailed pair’ a scalariform voltage..is applied. 1970 J. Shepherd et al. Higher Electr. Engin. (ed. 2) xxii. 713 In this method drift in one part of a circuit is balanced against drift in another part. The long-tailed or emitter-coupled pair circuit..is an example. 2007 I. R. Sinclair & J. Dunton Pract. Electronics Handbk. (ed. 6) vii. 199 The longtailed pair is most effective when used as a balanced amplifier, with balanced inputs and outputs. long-tailed tit n. (also long-tailed titmouse) a very small Eurasian songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail.Formerly classed as a true titmouse of the family Paridae, this bird is now placed with the bushtits in the family Aegithalidae. ΚΠ 1668Long tailed tit [see sense 1b]. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 242 The long-tail'd Titmouse. 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 106 The delicate long-tailed titmouse. 1829 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Art 27 441 The eggs with a white ground are those of the European oriole, the long-tailed tit.., and the common swallow. 1884 Cent. Mag. May 46/1 The long-tailed titmouse lays from ten to twelve eggs. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 582 As many as 2,379 feathers have been counted in the nest of the long-tailed tit. 2009 Independent 25 Mar. 18/2 The tiny long-tailed tit is so small—the tail is longer than the body—that it is very vulnerable to cold weather. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas long-tailed a. Having, or furnished with, a tail or tails; in Zoology and Botany = caudate adj. Often in parasynthetic combinations, as long-tailed, white-tailed, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [adjective] > having a tail tailed1297 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > appendage tailed1297 appendiculated1752 appendiculate1836 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail i-teileda1240 tailed1297 caudate1600 scutted1634 betailed1762 the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > others lachrymal1607 tauriform1721 diminished1726 tailed1767 acinose1796 aciniform1798 acinous1809 slab-sided1817 lip-like1836 mound-like1843 high-centred1847 square-toed1851 brush-shaped1880 mushroom1884 bolster-shaped1900 arrowhead1934 narrow-gutted1952 panhandled1960 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8821 Men iseie iwis Þe tailede sterre, þat gret bodiinge is. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 158 What haf I to do with Inglis tayled kyng? a1400 R. Glouc.'s Chron. (Rolls) App. T. 10 Ȝute libbeþ of þe kunde ytailed maniȝe so. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xx. 20 Thenne answered this tailed worm. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xii. f. 261^v He is eared and tailed like a rat. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. l. 352 Panthers are not in that wise tailed. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 147 That called the tailed-bandage, used in compound fractures. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) v. 44 [A] blue baize tailed coat. 1890 J. P. Ballard Among Moths & Butterflies 17 The hinder wings tailed. extracted from tailedadj.¹ < adj.a1450 as lemmas
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long-tailedadj.

Compounds

> as lemmas