bottom vs tail

bottom

noun
  • The buttocks or anus. 

  • Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil. 

  • The far end of somewhere. 

  • A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. 

  • A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity. 

  • Low-lying land; a valley or hollow. 

  • The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat. 

  • A cargo vessel, a ship. 

  • A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men. 

  • Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. 

  • Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater. 

  • The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect. 

  • A garment worn to cover the body below the torso. 

  • An abyss. 

  • The lowest part of anything. 

  • Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water. 

  • The lowest part of a container. 

  • The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea. 

adj
  • Relating to the genitals. 

  • The lowest or last place or position. 

verb
  • To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water). 

  • To establish or found (something) on or upon. 

  • To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. 

  • To reach the bottom of something. 

  • To fall to the lowest point. 

  • To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. 

  • To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. 

  • To furnish (something) with a bottom. 

  • To be anally penetrated in gay sex. 

tail

noun
  • The buttocks or backside. 

  • All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on. 

  • A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style. 

  • Sexual intercourse. 

  • Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”) 

  • A train or company of attendants; a retinue. 

  • The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. 

  • A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing. 

  • The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail. 

  • A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies. 

  • Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. 

  • One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. 

  • The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird. 

  • The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. 

  • The penis of a person or animal. 

  • A tailing. 

  • The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. 

  • The distal tendon of a muscle. 

  • The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile. 

  • One who surreptitiously follows another. 

  • The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin. 

  • The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. 

  • The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers. 

  • The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y. 

  • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage. 

  • The stern; the back of the kayak. 

  • An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind. 

  • A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. 

  • The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part. 

adj
  • Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To follow and observe surreptitiously. 

  • To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. 

  • To pull or draw by the tail. 

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