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fantail en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfænˌteɪl/ (General-American)

Etymology

From fan + tail. The sense of Rhipidura-genus birds is a calque of translingual Rhipidura.

Meanings

  1. Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
  2. Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
  3. Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
  4. An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
    • The Paranoids cast off, backed the Godzilla II out from the pier, turned and with a concerted whoop took off like a bat out of hell, nearly sending Di Presso over the fantail. 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 38:
  5. A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
  6. A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.

Forms

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Deriveds

rufous-backed fantail · yellow-bellied fairy-fantail · grey fantail · black-and-white fantail · Arafura fantail · streaked fantail warbler · rufous fantail · northern fantail · yellow-bellied fantail

Translations (4)

de Fächerschwanz (bird of the genus Rhipidura) · pl gołąb pawik (bird of the genus Rhipidura) · ca cua de ventall (bird of the genus Rhipidura) · fi viuhkamonarkki (bird of the genus Rhipidura)