grow a tail
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have a protuberance (a bump) be formed on the rear of one's bottomwear (viz. pants, underpants, diaper, etc.) after a particularly productive incident of solid fecal incontinence.
Humorous; Intransitive verb; Slang
Example Sentences
- "When man needs to grow a tail, man must run to bathroom without fail. Thou shalt groweth thy tail with great care, or though might staineth thine underwear!"
- "Kathy is teasing Dad that Mom is growing a tail in the toilet. Guess he understands to a degree and had a strange look on his face when I came out, so assure him I am fine and did not grow a tail."
- "A steaming pile of toilet humour might not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's no denying the hilarity in some of these messages from beyond the bowl. Our readers managed to snap these delightful deuces before breaking the seal, splashing the pirate, building a log cabin, growing a tail... you get the idea."
- "The only other guy doing any work around here was the fat old cop down in the can, strugglin' to grow a tail."
Etymology
* All three meanings are related to defecation, in three different ways. * Grow comes from the ideas of expansion (after emergence), either sudden (as in senses 1 and 3) or gradual (as in sense 2). * Tail refers to the fecal matter itself, namely its shape (especially that of a so-called “log”, particularly in sense 3) and the side of the body whence it is expeled (the back side, where a tail would have been located).