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English
Etymology
From long + tail.
Noun
longtail (plural longtails)
- Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- (Bermuda) Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird.
- (Bermuda, by extension) A young, unattached female tourist.
- A longtail boat.
- (colloquial, Isle of Man) A rat.
- (slang) A pheasant.
- (slang) A greyhound.
Usage notes
The Manx colloquial usage derives from a relatively modern superstition that it is considered bad luck to use the word "rat".
Derived terms
References
- (pheasant; greyhound): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary