"hangtail" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hang + tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.",
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      "form": "more hangtail",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1964, Kulchur - Volume 4, page 50",
          "text": "The dog trotted hangtail away, and the prairie dog turned his head to check on a flush.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Joyce Stranger, Rex: A Novel, page 184",
          "text": "The dog dropped, hang-head, hang-tail.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: John-Juan; Two Novels, page 207",
          "text": "At least a hundred hairless dogs, which had been barking fiercely, slunk hangtail through the ruptures that served these huts as doorholes.",
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        "With the tail hanging limply."
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  "etymology_text": "hang + tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.",
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          "ref": "1952, Rhys Davies, Marianne, page 157",
          "text": "Most bridegrooms look ashamed and hangtail.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Joe Johnson, Courtin', Sportin', and Non-supportin', page 89",
          "text": "When in this sad hangtail mood, even the healthy bites of aggressive fleas could not distract him, so deeply was he immersed in despondency.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave",
          "text": "As they climbed into the van Potter clapped the trooper on the shoulder and Budd responded with as hangtail a smile as the agent had ever in his life encountered.",
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          "ref": "2001, Jack Curtis, The Sheriff Kill, page 45",
          "text": "And right now you were feeling a little hangtail.",
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        "Disheartened; low-spirited."
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          "low-spirited",
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  "etymology_text": "hang + tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.",
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      "form": "more hangtail",
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          "ref": "1967, Joyce Stranger, Rex: A Novel, page 184",
          "text": "The dog dropped, hang-head, hang-tail.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: John-Juan; Two Novels, page 207",
          "text": "At least a hundred hairless dogs, which had been barking fiercely, slunk hangtail through the ruptures that served these huts as doorholes.",
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        "With the tail hanging limply."
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  "etymology_text": "hang + tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.",
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      "form": "more hangtail",
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          "ref": "1952, Rhys Davies, Marianne, page 157",
          "text": "Most bridegrooms look ashamed and hangtail.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Joe Johnson, Courtin', Sportin', and Non-supportin', page 89",
          "text": "When in this sad hangtail mood, even the healthy bites of aggressive fleas could not distract him, so deeply was he immersed in despondency.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave",
          "text": "As they climbed into the van Potter clapped the trooper on the shoulder and Budd responded with as hangtail a smile as the agent had ever in his life encountered.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jack Curtis, The Sheriff Kill, page 45",
          "text": "And right now you were feeling a little hangtail.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Disheartened; low-spirited."
      ],
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