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单词 stug-tailed
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stug-tailedadj.

Forms: pre-1700 stug-taillit, pre-1700 stug-tallit, pre-1700 1700s stug-tailed.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, tailed adj.1
Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin + tailed adj.1The first element is perhaps a variant or alteration of either stuck adj.1 or stock n.1 (compare also Anglo-Norman estoc stump (14th cent.): see stock n.3), perhaps by association with stog v.1 (compare also later stug v.).
Scottish. Obsolete.
Of a horse: having a docked 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
docked1408
stug-tailed1575
curtal1576
curtailed1591
bushya1609
bobbed1658
undocked1677
flisk1680
rat-tailed1684
strunted1688
bob1709
cocktailed1763
switched1769
cocked1775
nick-tailed1840
1575 Edinb. Test. III. 288 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Stok n.2 Ane stug tallit gray naig.
1613 in R. Pitcairn Anc. Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 265 Ane cut-luggit stanet naig, mouse-hewit and stug-taillit.
1698 in Misc. 3rd Spalding Club (1940) II. 111 Both the saids horses were stug tailed.
1758 Aberdeen Jrnl. 28 Nov. Very short lugs, stug-tailed, and has never been shod.
1772 Edinb. Evening Courant 27 July Stug-tail'd, and clipped in the manes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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