SHIRTTAIL


Meaning of SHIRTTAIL in English

[shirt.tail] adj (1845) 1: very young: immature "~ boys fishing in the creek"

2: distantly and indefinitely related "a ~ cousin on her father's side"

3: small, trivial, or short typically to the point of inadequacy "has a gullied ~ ranch in the hills"

[2]shirttail n (1873) 1: the part of a shirt that reaches below the waist esp. in the back

2: something small or inadequate

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