SHIRTTAIL

shirttail

(noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt

shirttail

(noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

shirttail (plural shirttails)

The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.

(by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.

A tenuous connection.

A distant kinship.

A small portion

Something small and unimportant.

Hypernyms

• tail (figurative)

Source: Wiktionary