Meaning of Pigtail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The tail of a pig.
   literally
2. Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
3. A braided plait of hair; queue.
4. Either of a pair of braids or tails worn on the sides of the head.
   especially
5. A hairstyle with a pair of pigtails.
   in-plural
6. A person who wears pigtails.
   colloquial, in-plural
7. A short length of twisted electrical wire.
8. The flamingo flower (anthurium)
9. Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Let padded breasts, high coat collars, stiff stocks, broad-shouldered straps, tight belts, trowser-straps and boots be consigned to the tomb of pigtails and powder.”

“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 pigtail, he still looked venerable and imposing.”

“[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.”

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

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