Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trundletail

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: trundle-tail
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,” […] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults."
"[A]uant you curs, / Be thy mouth, or blacke, or vvhite, tooth that poyſons if it bite, / Maſtife, grayhoũd [grayhound], mungril, grim-hoũd or ſpaniel, brach or him, / Bobtaile tike, or trũdletaile [trundletail], Tom vvill make them vveep & vvaile, […]"
"Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!"
"[…] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,"

Etymology

From trundle + tail.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

trundletails (plural) trendle-tail (alternative) trindle-tail (alternative)

Questions

What does trundletail mean?: A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.
Where does trundletail come from?: From trundle + tail.

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