tailed
/teɪld/
tailed is the simple past and past participle of tail.
Adjective
tailed (not comparable)
- Having a tail.
- There are several tailed species of mammals.
- This is a species of long-tailed mouse.
- Of certain butterflies, having one or more filamentous projections on the tornal section of each hind wing.
Meaning of tail
Verb
tail (third-person singular simple present tails, present participle tailing, simple past and past participle tailed)
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- This vessel tails downstream.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- Tail that car!
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...
- The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid,
Synonyms of tailed
Origin of tailed
From Middle English tayled; equivalent to tail + -ed.
Words formed from tailed
- boattailed
- brush-tailed
- bushy-tailed
- culvertailed
- daggle-tailed
- draggle-tailed
- fan-tailed
- fantailed
- fast-tailed
- fat-tailed
- heavy-tailed
- high-tailed
- long-tailed
- lyre-tailed
- multitailed
- pig-tailed
- pin-tailed
- pintailed
- pony-tailed
- ring-tailed
- scissors-tailed
- sharptailed
- spot-tailed
- swallow-tailed
- swallowtailed
- whip-tailed
- African long-tailed shrike
- ball-tailed cat
- band-tailed antshrike
- band-tailed manakin
- band-tailed pigeon
- bar-tailed godwit
- black-tailed deer
- black-tailed flycatcher
- black-tailed godwit
- black-tailed hawfinch
- black-tailed jackrabbit
- black-tailed nativehen
- black-tailed prairie dog
- black-tailed trainbearer
- black-tailed wallaby
- Brazilian free-tailed bat
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- brown-tailed rock chat
- brush-tailed mouse
- brush-tailed penguin
- brush-tailed phascogale
- brush-tailed porcupine
- brush-tailed possum
- buff-tailed bumblebee
- burnt-tailed barb
- chestnut-tailed starling
- crest-tailed mulgara
- Elliot's short-tailed shrew
- fan-tailed warbler
- fat-tailed dunnart
- fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- fat-tailed lemur
- fat-tailed sheep
- feather-tailed glider
Phrases with tailed
- tailed e
- tailed in
- tailed off
- tailed away
- tailed down
- tailed frog
- tailed Cupid
- tailed frogs
- tailed Cupids
- tailed pepper
- tailed peppers
- top and tailed
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Words that rhyme with tailed
Questions about tailed
- What does tailed mean?
- Tailed means having a tail.
- What is tailed the simple past and past participle of?
- Tailed is the simple past and past participle of tail.
- What part of speech is tailed?
- Tailed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tailed?
- Tailed is pronounced /teɪld/.
Words near tailed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tailed (page history and authors); tail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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