bobtail

1. 1.

   a short or shortened tail of certain animals

   Synonymsbobdock

   Broadertail
2. 2.

   large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain

   SynonymsOld English sheepdog

   Broadershepherd dog

1. 1.

   having a short or shortened tail

   “bobtail mare”

   Synonymsbobtailed

   Similarcaudate

Other forms of bobtail

plural

bobtails·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bobtail

What does bobtail mean?

bobtail means "a short or shortened tail of certain animals". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bobtail?

bobtail has 2 syllables: bob-tail. The stress falls on "bob".

What is another word for bobtail?

Close synonyms include bob, dock, Old English sheepdog, bobtailed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bobtail a common word?

bobtail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.