fish-tail

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verb wiggle back and forth

verb. wiggle back and forth

verb. wiggle back and forth

verb. wiggle back and forth

1840, from fish (n.) + tail (n.). As a verb, 1927, originally of aircraft, later automobiles. Related: Fishtailed; fishtailing.

The other, shaped like a fish-tail, sent it to right or left.

There was a train of a fish-tail sort, a little twitching afterthought.

The gas-jet is on at the full—or rather the tap is, for the fish-tail burner doesn't realise its ideal.

A blast-lamp is likely to be more useful here than the fish-tail burner.

But Bob was made of different stuff, and he began now to work the boat along by paddling softly, fish-tail fashion.

But he shifted the fish-tail rudder, and the Comet obediently swerved over closer to the big, humming June bug.

Only on this side the fish-tail (so to speak) had a nick in it; and through that nick ran the path to the old quarry.

The forequarters of a goat with fish-tail is the traditional form for this sign handed on from the Roman Zodiac.

What, that big beast that looks as if it was made of india-rubber, with long whiskers and a sort of fish-tail?

No accumulation of filth in every hue—of shell, and gill, and fish-tail—can disgust me.