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ˈlong-tail
1. a. A long-tailed animal, formerly a dog or horse with the tail uncut; spec. a greyhound. Also attrib. cut and long-tail: see cut ppl. a. 9; fig. in the sense ‘riff-raff’ (cf. quot. a 1700 and bob-tail).
1575–1699 [see cut ppl. a. 9]. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. i. 1509 He hath bestowed an ounce of Tobacco vpon vs, and as long as it lasts, come cut and long-taile, weele spend it as liberally for his sake. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Riff-raff,..Tagrag and Long-tail. 1865Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 5/1 Ten brace more or less of ‘longtails’ [= pheasants]. 1876Coursing Calendar 12 The former Duke of Hamilton..and others of their day, were followers of the ‘long tails’ on the very same ground. 1900Westm. Gaz. 20 June 4/2 The farmer wants to sell his horse as a ‘long-tail’, and the military authorities would prefer not to receive it till it is five or six. 1927Daily Express 25 May 12 A little more foresight..might have made ‘rag running’ a very popular entertainment, commanding as much notice as the sport of long-tail racing. 1930Billis & Kenyon Pastures New vi. 102 Some high-priced coursing dogs,—longtails as they were called—were brought into the colony.
b. The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis.
1837Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds II. 189 Heralda, or the long-tails. 1919J. Masefield Reynard 93 Some longtails prinking. 1958D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VII. 141 A number of immature long-tails may be seen in the Channel from November onwards.
c. The white-tailed tropic bird, Phaëthon lepturus.
1905Chambers's Jrnl. May 367/1 The tropic bird commonly called ‘longtail’. 1960J. Bond Birds W. Indies 22 White-tailed Tropicbird... Local names:..Boatswain Bird; Long-tail.
2. A nickname for:
†a. A native of Kent. Obs.
In allusion to the jocular imputation that the people of Kent had tails (cf. quot. a 1661); the French made the same accusation against Englishmen generally.
[1617Moryson Itin. iii. 53 The Kentish men of old were sayd to have tayles, because trafficking in the Low-Countries, they never paid full..but still left some part unpaid.] 1628Robin Goodfellow, his mad Prankes (Percy Soc.) 4 They ever after were called Kentish Long-tayles. Ibid. 5 Truly, sir, sayd my hoastesse, I thinke we are called Long-tayles, by reason our tales are long, that we use to passe the time withall, and make our selves merry. 1656Sir J. Mennis & J. Smith Musarum Deliciæ 7 Which still stands as a Monument, Call'd Long-taile, from the Man of Kent. 1659Howell Lex., Eng. Prov. 21 Essex Calfs, Kentish Long-tails, Yorkshire Tikes. a1661Fuller Worthies, Kent (1811) I. 486 ‘Kentish Long-Tailes’... It happened in an English Village where Saint Austin was preaching, that the Pagans therein did beat and abuse both him and his associates, opprobriously tying Fish-tails to their backsides; in revenge whereof an impudent Author relateth..how such Appendants grew to the hind-parts of all that Generation. 1701T. Brown Advice in Coll. Poems 104 We, the Long Heads of Gotham,..To the Long-Tails of Kent, by these Presents send Greeting.
b. A Chinaman.
1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
3. Tobacco-manuf.
1839‘Joseph Fume’ Paper on Tobacco 119 The manufacturers tried them with a sample of returns under the name of long-tails.
4. attrib. = long-tailed. long-tail pair Electronics = long-tailed pair (long-tailed a. 3).
1848C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 327 Longtail Tit (Parus Caudatus). 1855Ogilvie, Suppl., Long-tail, a. Having the tail uncut, as a dog. 1946Electronic Engin. XVIII. 298/2 Each of the amplifiers..embodies a 3-stage network, employing valves (EF. 50) in a long-tail pair connexion... The circuiting is such that the amplifiers respond to difference of signal potential between the input terminals, being several hundred times less sensitive to variations of the potential of the two terminals together with respect to ground. 1971J. H. Smith Digital Logic iv. 70 Transistors T2 and T3 form a long tail pair where a fixed current is passed through R3 into either T2 or T3, so that either one or the other transistor will conduct, but not both. |