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hangtail

語源

hang +‎ tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.

副詞

hangtail (comparative more hangtail, superlative most hangtail)

With the tail hanging limply.
- 1964, Kulchur - Volume 4, page 50:
  The dog trotted hangtail away, and the prairie dog turned his head to check on a flush.
- 1967, Joyce Stranger, Rex: A Novel, page 184:
  The dog dropped, hang-head, hang-tail.
- 1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: John-Juan; Two Novels, page 207:
  At least a hundred hairless dogs, which had been barking fiercely, slunk hangtail through the ruptures that served these huts as doorholes.

形容詞

hangtail (comparative more hangtail, superlative most hangtail)

Disheartened; low-spirited.
- 1952, Rhys Davies, Marianne, page 157:
  Most bridegrooms look ashamed and hangtail.
- 1969, Joe Johnson, Courtin', Sportin', and Non-supportin', page 89:
  When in this sad hangtail mood, even the healthy bites of aggressive fleas could not distract him, so deeply was he immersed in despondency.
- 1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden 's Grave:
  As they climbed into the van Potter clapped the trooper on the shoulder and Budd responded with as hangtail a smile as the agent had ever in his life encountered.
- 2001, Jack Curtis, The Sheriff Kill, page 45:
  And right now you were feeling a little hangtail.

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