Crossword-Solution: WAGTAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wagtail | n. | Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WAGTAIL | anagram | TAILWAG |
We have 8 clues for the answer “WAGTAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PIPIT relative | 1 answer |
| Songbird with a bobbing back end | 1 answer |
| grey wagtail | 1 answer |
| small long-tailed bird | 1 answer |
| Passerine songbird | 2 answers |
| Lark | 29 answers |
| songbird | 42 answers |
| passerine bird | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WAGTAIL (5)
Beneath where the ponds are bushy mare's-tails grow, and on the moist banks jointed pewterwort; some of the broad bronze leaves of water-weeds seem to try and conquer the pond and cover it so firmly that a wagtail may run on them.
Specklebreasted thrushes were at work, and a wagtail that ran as with Clara's own rapid little steps.
And first there's one with a step like a wagtail, and next there's one as bold as a hawk, and after him one as comely as a wild swan, and last was one as wise as an owl.
During one spring he shot thirty-nine males of Ray’s wagtail (Budytes Raii) before he saw a single female.
She is a wagtail yet, but a dear one, to which we have both grown attached.” Petronius looked through the branches of woodbine into the garden, and at the three persons who were playing there.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).