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brush-tailed

brush-tailed adjective: having a furry tail, as many marsupials.

Adjective

brush-tailed (not comparable)

  1. Having a furry tail, as many marsupials.
    • "Coursing? What, with those long-legged, brush-tailed brutes, like a fox upon stilts, which the prefect cozened you into buying?"1857, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, volume II, page 170
    • Nothing, only that it was restless and sticking its claws in the carpet to drag them out again, and apparently anxious to get out of the house - setting up its fur and looking brush-tailed, wild-eyed, and staring.1867, George Manville Fenn, Bent, Not Broken, volume II, page 268

Phrases with brush-tailed

Questions about brush-tailed

What does brush-tailed mean?
Brush-tailed means having a furry tail, as many marsupials.
What part of speech is brush-tailed?
Brush-tailed is an adjective.

Words near brush-tailed in the dictionary

  1. brush-making
  2. brush-off
  3. brush-offs
  4. brush-pen
  5. brush-pens
  6. brush-tailed
  7. brush-tailed mice
  8. brush-tailed mouse
  9. brush-tailed penguin
  10. brush-tailed penguins
  11. brush-tailed phascogale

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