Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A braid or ponytail, especially one of a pair worn one on each side of the head.
- noun A short length of wire used to connect other wires to each other or to an electrical device.
- noun A twisted roll of tobacco.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In logging, an iron device driven into trees or stumps to support a wire or small rope.
- noun The tail of a pig.
- noun A cue formed of the hair of the head, as distinguished from that of the periwig.
- noun A person who wears a pigtail or cue.
- noun Tobacco twisted into a rope or cord.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The tail of a pig.
- noun (Hair Dressing) A cue, or queue.
- noun A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
braided plait ofhair . - noun this sense)Either of two
braids orponytails on the side of the head. - noun A
twisted piece oftobacco . - noun A
cable that has aconnector at one end, and loosewires on the other. - noun The flamingo flower.
- noun The
tail of apig .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a plait of braided hair
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Examples
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"Pull his bloomin 'pigtail," said one of these outcasts from decent conduct.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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One old gentleman with an iron-gray pigtail is a "Forty-niner."
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You can see where the pigtail was attached but it is missing on the Chinese man.
Boing Boing 2007
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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.
Tales of Chinatown Sax Rohmer 1921
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The very weight of the pigtail is a sobering influence; its solemn, pendulum movement is incompatible with revolt.
Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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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.
Legends and Tales Bret Harte 1869
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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.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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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.
The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib 1867
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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
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866
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THis is called the Western Union "pigtail" splice.
Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester 1971
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