pigtail

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• pig-tail

From pig +‎ tail.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/

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pigtail (plural pigtails)

1. (literally) The tail of a pig.
2. Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 265:

     One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.

3. A braided plait of hair; queue.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Such a filthy spectacle as we presented I have never seen before or since, and it will perhaps give some idea of the almost superhuman dignity of Billali's appearance when I say that, coughing, half-drowned, and covered with mud and green slime as he was, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping point, like a Chinaman's freshly-oiled pig-tail, he still looked venerable and imposing.

   1. (now especially) Either of a pair of braids or tails worn on the sides of the head.
      • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:

        [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

   2. (in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of pigtails.
   3. (colloquial, in the plural) A person who wears pigtails.
      • , →ISSN:

        […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”]

4. (electrical engineering) A short length of twisted electrical wire.

   Synonym: tail

5. The flamingo flower (anthurium)
6. (medicine) Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.

• pigtail macaque

• “pigtail”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.