Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A plait of braided hair.
- n. A twisted roll of tobacco.
- n. See flamingo flower.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The tail of a pig.
- n. A cue formed of the hair of the head, as distinguished from that of the periwig. This was retained by certain classes, as the sailors of the British navy, after it had gone out of use in polite society. In this way it survived as late as 1825.
See cue , 1. - n. A person who wears a pigtail or cue.
- n. Tobacco twisted into a rope or cord.
- n. In logging, an iron device driven into trees or stumps to support a wire or small rope.
Wiktionary
- n. A braided plait of hair.
- n. this sense)Either of two braids or ponytails on the side of the head.
- n. A twisted piece of tobacco.
- n. A cable that has a connector at one end, and loose wires on the other.
- n. The flamingo flower.
- n. The tail of a pig.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The tail of a pig.
- n. (Hair Dressing) A cue, or queue.
- n. A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a plait of braided hair
Examples
“Pull his bloomin 'pigtail," said one of these outcasts from decent conduct.”
“One old gentleman with an iron-gray pigtail is a "Forty-niner.”
“You can see where the pigtail was attached but it is missing on the Chinese man.”
“Possibly, however, the scheme had germinated in my acquaintance's mind merely as a result of an otherwise common assault, of a kind not unusual in these parts, but, whether elaborate or comparatively simple, that the story of the pigtail was a "plant" designed to reach my pocket, seemed a reasonable hypothesis.”
“The very weight of the pigtail is a sobering influence; its solemn, pendulum movement is incompatible with revolt.”
“As the firelight fell on his ingenuous countenance the broker observed with some concern that this queue was formed entirely of a kind of tobacco, known as pigtail or twist.”
“As the firelight fell on his ingenuous countenance the broker observed with some concern that this queue was formed entirely of a kind of tobacco known as pigtail or twist.”
“But he is about the right age, and, I should say, about the same figure; and he has certainly been a sailor, for he said, to one of the soldiers, that he would give that pound of tobacco for a couple of pipes of pigtail, which is the tobacco sailors smoke.”
“It seemed a promising enterprise, as the secret society of the Blue Lotus was agitating for the abolition of the pigtail, which is the emblem of the servitude of the Chinese to the”
“THis is called the Western Union "pigtail" splice.”
Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pigtail’.
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Noah's Park
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sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Flanges &c
Amusingly-named mechanical and electrical parts to be found in a particular warehouse in Newfoundland
nut, relief valve, cotter, shaft, bushing (inner bo..., sleeve, bushing (link), thrust washer, slip yoke, bushing (swing post), half pump coupling, main teledyne spool and 344 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Tobacco
Tobacco types and lingo.
perique, mundungus, mundungo, latakia, kanickanick, kinnikinic, kinnikinick, Cavendish, negrohead, pudding-tobacco, goracco, indian-weed and 47 more...
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