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Search phrase: wagtail

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
King Lear	KL II.ii.65	‘ Spare my grey beard,’ you wagtail!	Spare my gray-beard, you wagtaile?

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[contemptuous form of address] tail-wagger, bower and scraper

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
WAGTAIL	BASIC	see WAG

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