shirttail
📖 Definitions
noun
1. The part of a shirt reaching below the waist, especially in the back.
2. A brief item added at the end of a newspaper article.
3. Something small or unimportant.
adjective
1. Very young or immature.
2. Very small or trivial.
3. Distantly related.
💬 Usage Examples
“Your mother thinks I’m a damned old idiot to give a shirttail boy a gun that’s just about as tall as the boy is.” Robert Ruark; Old Man’s Boy Grows Up; Hamish Hamilton; 1962. “It was a good place to live back then, back when Hollywood was just a shirttail country town on the interurban line.” Grover Lewis, Dave Hickey, Robert Draper; Splendor in the Short Grass; University of Texas Press; 2005. “A previously unknown species of sea lily has turned up ... a shirttail cousin to the starfish.” Science Notebook; Science News (Washington, DC); Oct 8, 2011.