tail-endn.

Brit.

/ˌteɪlˈɛnd/, U.S.

/ˈˌteɪlˈɛnd/

Etymology: < tail n.¹ + end n.

a. The hindmost or lowest end of anything; that part which is opposite the head: cf. tail n.¹ 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > back part or rear

hinder enda1382

back-half1408

backside1417

arse1510

rear1609

postern1611

back-enda1617

arreara1627

back1626

averse1655

posteriorsa1657

ass1700

tail-end1747

rear end1785

west side1829

arse-end1837

hindside1862

ass-end1934

the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end

lag-end1598

back-enda1617

tailing1646

tail-end1747

rear end1785

tailpiece1786

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 92 Take a large Eel,..cut it into four Pieces, take the Tail-end, [etc.].

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. v. 277 A tail-end of a rump of beef, weighing 12³/ ₄ lb., when boiled gave 1³/ ₄ lb. of bone.

1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 255 Two or three tail~ends of glaciers dribbled over them [cliffs].

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. vii A dray with low wheels and broad axle, surmounted by a box open at the tail-end.

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings viii. 214 V., my pilot and flight-commander, was given to a quick dive at the enemy,..and another dash to close grips from an unexpected direction, while I guarded the tail-end.

†b. spec. The backside, rump: = tail n.¹ 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]

flitcha700

arse-endseOE

culec1220

buttockc1300

tail1303

toutec1305

nagea1325

fundamentc1325

tail-end1377

brawna1382

buma1387

bewschers?a1400

crouponc1400

rumplec1430

lendc1440

nachec1440

luddocka1475

rearwarda1475

croupc1475

rumpc1475

dock1508

hurdies1535

bunc1538

sitting place1545

bottom?c1550

prat1567

nates1581

backside1593

crupper1594

posteriorums1596

catastrophe1600

podex1601

posterior1605

seat1607

poop1611

stern1631

cheek1639

breeka1642

doup1653

bumkin1658

bumfiddle1661

assa1672

butt1675

quarter1678

foundation1681

toby1681

bung1691

rear1716

fud1722

moon1756

derrière1774

rass1790

stern-post1810

sit-down1812

hinderland1817

hinderling1817

nancy1819

ultimatum1823

behinda1830

duff?1837

botty1842

rear end1851

latter end1852

hinder?1857

sit1862

sit-me-down1866

stern-works1879

tuchus1886

jacksy-pardy1891

sit-upon1910

can1913

truck-end1913

sitzfleisch1916

B.T.M.1919

fanny1919

bot1922

heinie1922

beam1929

yas yas1929

keister1931

batty1935

bim1935

arse-end1937

twat1937

okole1938

bahookie1939

bohunkus1941

quoit1941

patoot1942

rusty-dusty1942

dinger1943

jacksie1943

zatch1950

ding1957

booty1959

patootie1959

buns1960

wazoo1961

tush1962

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 395 Were I brouȝte abedde, but if my taille-ende it made, Sholde no ryngynge do me ryse, ar I were rype to dyne.

1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 50 Quenching of torches in ȝou tayl-ende.

c. figurative; esp. the concluding part of an action, period of time, etc.: cf. tail n.¹ 4b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part

eveningOE

enda1200

eventide?c1225

finea1350

tail1377

latter (last) enda1382

issue1484

latter day?1498

waning1561

last days1572

heel1584

sunsetting1593

fall1596

lag-end1598

posterior1598

sunset1599

dotage1606

exit1615

stern1623

waning timea1639

last1683

heel piecea1764

shank1828

tail-end1845

tailpiece1869

tag1882

teatime1913

end-point1921

1845 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 31 I am sorry to say I have not even the tail-end of a fact in English Zoology to communicate.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxii The tail~end of a shower caught us.

1887 Spectator 17 Sept. 1240 At the tail-end of the Session.

d. Cricket. = tail n.¹ 8a(b). Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > last in order

last man1748

last wicket1775

tail1851

gravedigger1887

tail-end1888

1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 162 The tail end of a team are usually victims to a good straight fast bowler.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/1 Fielder bowled very well indeed at the tail-end men of the Victorian eleven.

1930 Morning Post 16 July 11/5 He had batted on three different days, and had shown ability and courage. He can never in future be regarded as a tail-end batsman.

1955 Times 13 July 3/2 With the first ball of his next Smales bowled Smith, who had..looked the one man likely to deprive Nottinghamshire of a win with tail-end wickets falling fast.

1976 0–10 Cricket Scene (Austral.) 15/1 He..then routed Victoria's tail-end to win another close encounter.

Categories »

2. The end or tip of a tail. rare.

3. = tailing n.¹ 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain

hummel corn1474

multure corn1546

tailings1764

tail1775

chicken corna1817

screening1824

pilkins1859

tail-end1859

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 142 Everybody 'ud be wanting bread made o' tail ends.

Compounds

tail-end Charlie n. a tail-gunner; the last aircraft in a flying formation (Services' colloquial); also transferred and figurative, one who comes last or behind, a tail-ender.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircrew with specific duties

observer1870

strafer1915

air gunner1916

air bomber1918

gunner1918

rear gunner1918

bombardier1932

bomb-aimer1935

tail gunner1939

tail-end Charlie1941

arse-end Charlie1942

waist-gunner1942

spotter pilot1944

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last

lagc1530

lattermost1627

tail-ender1885

tail-end Charlie1941

society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > air force pilot > flying in specific position

tail-end Charlie1941

pathfinder1943

wing-man1946

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft > a group of aircraft > disposition in flight > aircraft in specific position

tail-end Charlie1941

wing-man1946

1941 Illustr. London News 199 579 (caption) The ‘tail-end Charlie’ of a ‘Halifax’ gives the ‘thumbs up’ sign just before his machine takes off.

1942 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Aug. 3/1 Lessig crossed the channel with the RAF, flying a Spitfire in the ‘tail end Charlie’ position—the last plane in a flight of four.

1956 P. Scott Male Child i. ii. 40 My brother..was killed in the war... A tail-end Charlie.

1961 Times 7 June 5/7 The Spaniard, Goyeneche was lanterne rouge, the cyclists' equivalent of tail-end-Charlie.

1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxxiv. 550 The essential services may, as in America, become regarded as the tail-end Charlies, the forgotten drudges under the pavements and pit-heads.

1969 Daily National (Nairobi) 31 Oct. 35 (advt.) Congratulations to Joginder Singh and Ken Ranyard on their magnificent drive in car No. 46, starting as ‘tail end Charlie’. But finishing with the major honours.

1973 Listener 15 Nov. 661/3 On tours, when I used to go with my parents..a sort of tail-end Charlie.

1976 Daily Mail 4 Oct. 3/3 The average lifespan of a ‘Tail-end Charlie’ was reckoned as ten ‘ops.’

1978 A. Price '44 Vintage x. 131 The jeep behind them was closing up... The Sergeant was taking his tail~end Charlie role..seriously.

1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) (North-east ed.) Oct. 53/3 I found myself on a hillside where the birds were flushing below, but then there was one tail-end Charlie who went up the hill.

Derivatives

tail-ˈender n. one that is at the tail-end (now esp. in Sport).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last

lagc1530

lattermost1627

tail-ender1885

tail-end Charlie1941

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > racer > types of

dead-heater1868

distance runner1868

pacemaker1884

tail-ender1885

pacer1893

distancer1911

finisher1963

1885 Sydney Mail 28 Feb. 451/4 Garrett and Evans, the ‘tail-enders’, established themselves..firmly at the wickets.

1895 Outing 26 31/1 Six teal flew across the water, and I downed the tailender.

1908 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 5/7 The Australians..failed because they could not get our tail-enders out.

1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 360/3 The St. Louis Cardinals, whom the writer designates as ‘almost chronic tail-enders’, are, in regard to the amounts spent for new players, just about the same.

1955 Times 23 June 17/1 It has certainly been focused so far on the leaders rather than the tail-enders in the various markets. One possible brake on the rise..is an increase in the corpus of securities.

1961 Sunday Express 7 May 1/6 Both men were lapping the tailenders now.

1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 24/2 Eric was also the better batsman, Alec being more of the hard-hitting tailender type.

1980 A. Crawley Dial 200-200 ix. 98 ‘You might have been killed yourself.’ ‘Not much chance; the raid had already gone past us. It would have had to be a tail-ender, like the one that got the maid.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tail-end
释义	tail-endn. Brit. /ˌteɪlˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˈˌteɪlˈɛnd/ Etymology: < tail n.¹ + end n. 1. a. The hindmost or lowest end of anything; that part which is opposite the head: cf. tail n.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > back part or rear hinder enda1382 back-half1408 backside1417 arse1510 rear1609 postern1611 back-enda1617 arreara1627 back1626 averse1655 posteriorsa1657 ass1700 tail-end1747 rear end1785 west side1829 arse-end1837 hindside1862 ass-end1934 the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end lag-end1598 back-enda1617 tailing1646 tail-end1747 rear end1785 tailpiece1786 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 92 Take a large Eel,..cut it into four Pieces, take the Tail-end, [etc.]. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. v. 277 A tail-end of a rump of beef, weighing 12³/ ₄ lb., when boiled gave 1³/ ₄ lb. of bone. 1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 255 Two or three tail~ends of glaciers dribbled over them [cliffs]. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. vii A dray with low wheels and broad axle, surmounted by a box open at the tail-end. 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings viii. 214 V., my pilot and flight-commander, was given to a quick dive at the enemy,..and another dash to close grips from an unexpected direction, while I guarded the tail-end. †b. spec. The backside, rump: = tail n.¹ 5. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 395 Were I brouȝte abedde, but if my taille-ende it made, Sholde no ryngynge do me ryse, ar I were rype to dyne. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 50 Quenching of torches in ȝou tayl-ende. c. figurative; esp. the concluding part of an action, period of time, etc.: cf. tail n.¹ 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part eveningOE enda1200 eventide?c1225 finea1350 tail1377 latter (last) enda1382 issue1484 latter day?1498 waning1561 last days1572 heel1584 sunsetting1593 fall1596 lag-end1598 posterior1598 sunset1599 dotage1606 exit1615 stern1623 waning timea1639 last1683 heel piecea1764 shank1828 tail-end1845 tailpiece1869 tag1882 teatime1913 end-point1921 1845 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 31 I am sorry to say I have not even the tail-end of a fact in English Zoology to communicate. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxii The tail~end of a shower caught us. 1887 Spectator 17 Sept. 1240 At the tail-end of the Session. d. Cricket. = tail n.¹ 8a(b). Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > last in order last man1748 last wicket1775 tail1851 gravedigger1887 tail-end1888 1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 162 The tail end of a team are usually victims to a good straight fast bowler. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/1 Fielder bowled very well indeed at the tail-end men of the Victorian eleven. 1930 Morning Post 16 July 11/5 He had batted on three different days, and had shown ability and courage. He can never in future be regarded as a tail-end batsman. 1955 Times 13 July 3/2 With the first ball of his next Smales bowled Smith, who had..looked the one man likely to deprive Nottinghamshire of a win with tail-end wickets falling fast. 1976 0–10 Cricket Scene (Austral.) 15/1 He..then routed Victoria's tail-end to win another close encounter. Categories » 2. The end or tip of a tail. rare. 3. = tailing n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain hummel corn1474 multure corn1546 tailings1764 tail1775 chicken corna1817 screening1824 pilkins1859 tail-end1859 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 142 Everybody 'ud be wanting bread made o' tail ends. Compounds tail-end Charlie n. a tail-gunner; the last aircraft in a flying formation (Services' colloquial); also transferred and figurative, one who comes last or behind, a tail-ender. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > aircrew with specific duties observer1870 strafer1915 air gunner1916 air bomber1918 gunner1918 rear gunner1918 bombardier1932 bomb-aimer1935 tail gunner1939 tail-end Charlie1941 arse-end Charlie1942 waist-gunner1942 spotter pilot1944 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last lagc1530 lattermost1627 tail-ender1885 tail-end Charlie1941 society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > air force pilot > flying in specific position tail-end Charlie1941 pathfinder1943 wing-man1946 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft > a group of aircraft > disposition in flight > aircraft in specific position tail-end Charlie1941 wing-man1946 1941 Illustr. London News 199 579 (caption) The ‘tail-end Charlie’ of a ‘Halifax’ gives the ‘thumbs up’ sign just before his machine takes off. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Aug. 3/1 Lessig crossed the channel with the RAF, flying a Spitfire in the ‘tail end Charlie’ position—the last plane in a flight of four. 1956 P. Scott Male Child i. ii. 40 My brother..was killed in the war... A tail-end Charlie. 1961 Times 7 June 5/7 The Spaniard, Goyeneche was lanterne rouge, the cyclists' equivalent of tail-end-Charlie. 1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxxiv. 550 The essential services may, as in America, become regarded as the tail-end Charlies, the forgotten drudges under the pavements and pit-heads. 1969 Daily National (Nairobi) 31 Oct. 35 (advt.) Congratulations to Joginder Singh and Ken Ranyard on their magnificent drive in car No. 46, starting as ‘tail end Charlie’. But finishing with the major honours. 1973 Listener 15 Nov. 661/3 On tours, when I used to go with my parents..a sort of tail-end Charlie. 1976 Daily Mail 4 Oct. 3/3 The average lifespan of a ‘Tail-end Charlie’ was reckoned as ten ‘ops.’ 1978 A. Price '44 Vintage x. 131 The jeep behind them was closing up... The Sergeant was taking his tail~end Charlie role..seriously. 1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) (North-east ed.) Oct. 53/3 I found myself on a hillside where the birds were flushing below, but then there was one tail-end Charlie who went up the hill. Derivatives tail-ˈender n. one that is at the tail-end (now esp. in Sport). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last lagc1530 lattermost1627 tail-ender1885 tail-end Charlie1941 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > racer > types of dead-heater1868 distance runner1868 pacemaker1884 tail-ender1885 pacer1893 distancer1911 finisher1963 1885 Sydney Mail 28 Feb. 451/4 Garrett and Evans, the ‘tail-enders’, established themselves..firmly at the wickets. 1895 Outing 26 31/1 Six teal flew across the water, and I downed the tailender. 1908 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 5/7 The Australians..failed because they could not get our tail-enders out. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 360/3 The St. Louis Cardinals, whom the writer designates as ‘almost chronic tail-enders’, are, in regard to the amounts spent for new players, just about the same. 1955 Times 23 June 17/1 It has certainly been focused so far on the leaders rather than the tail-enders in the various markets. One possible brake on the rise..is an increase in the corpus of securities. 1961 Sunday Express 7 May 1/6 Both men were lapping the tailenders now. 1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 24/2 Eric was also the better batsman, Alec being more of the hard-hitting tailender type. 1980 A. Crawley Dial 200-200 ix. 98 ‘You might have been killed yourself.’ ‘Not much chance; the raid had already gone past us. It would have had to be a tail-ender, like the one that got the maid.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1377
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