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单词 nick-tailed
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nick-tailedadj.

Brit. /ˈnɪkteɪld/, U.S. /ˈnɪkˌteɪld/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nick n.1, tailed adj.1
Etymology: < nick n.1 + tailed adj.1 Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. also records a derived noun nicktail with the sense ‘a horse with its tail cut short’ in 20th-cent. use from southern states.
U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland). Now rare.
Of a horse: having a nicked tail.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of tail
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1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 775/1 The Briggs's war alwise as cute as a needle, an' the Fox's as proud as a nick-tailed horse.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 97 The horse, a nick-tailed trotter, Tom had raffled off.
1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 19 A nick tailed, bow necked, long, poor, pale sorrel horse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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