Bobtail

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• bobtail

  (From bob, in the sense of cut). Cut tail, short tail.--Johnson. Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• tagrag-and-bobtail

  n. a species of sea-weed.See quotation. 1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80: «I...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• tag-rag and bobtail

  An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose