Definitions for oxtails

oxtails ox·tail

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IPA: /ˈɒksˌteɪl/

Oxtails is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in oxtails (ailostx).

Definitions for oxtails

noun

  1. the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.

Origin of oxtails

First recorded in 1675-85; ox + tail1

Examples for oxtails

There was oxtail soup, and blood pudding, and cakes of suet, and stacks of tallow candles.

It is an oxtail stew, canned of course, but smells appetizing.

Put in sauce pan four ounces of butter, melt, add the oxtail, and roast until colored.

It may be baked in an earthen jar, like the oxtail stew, and all its goodness will be saved.

Opening this work with intense curiosity, to my great disappointment, what did I see,—a receipt for oxtail Soup!

An oxtail soup is made like the above, only adding the tail, which is divided into joints, which are fried brown.

Word Value for oxtails
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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