pigtail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From pig + tail.
Compound parts: pig
tail
Inflected forms:
form: pigtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pig-tail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pigtails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pigtailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pigtailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pigtailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pig-tail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The tail of a pig.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A braided plait of hair; queue.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A braided plait of hair; queue.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: [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.
gloss: A braided plait of hair; queue.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A braided plait of hair; queue.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
in-plural
examples: […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”
gloss: A short length of twisted electrical wire.
pos: noun
gloss: The flamingo flower (anthurium)
pos: noun
gloss: Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.
pos: noun
gloss: To connect wires of a circuit by means of a short additional wire.
pos: verb
Derived words: pigtailed
pigtail macaque
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: توكتين
roman: tuktén
lang: Bashkir
word: толом
roman: tolom
lang: Bulgarian
word: плитка
roman: plitka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辮子 /辫子
roman: biànzi
lang: Danish
word: fletning
lang: Finnish
word: letti
lang: French
word: tresse
lang: French
word: natte
lang: Galician
word: cerceta
lang: Galician
word: cogoteira
lang: German
word: Zopf
lang: Hebrew
word: צַמָּה
roman: tzamá
lang: Hungarian
word: copf
lang: Italian
word: codino
lang: Japanese
word: 御下げ
roman: osage
lang: Japanese
word: 御下げ髪
roman: osagegami
lang: Japanese
word: ピグテール
roman: pigutēru
lang: Japanese
word: ツインテール
roman: tsuintēru
lang: Korean
word: 양갈래 머리
roman: yanggallae meori
lang: Korean
word: 트윈테일
roman: teuwinteil
lang: Korean
word: 피그테일
roman: pigeuteil
lang: Macedonian
word: пле́тенка
roman: plétenka
lang: Polish
word: warkoczyk
lang: Polish
word: warkocz
lang: Polish
word: kucyk
lang: Polish
word: mysi ogonek
lang: Portuguese
word: trança
lang: Romani
word: chunra
lang: Russian
word: коси́чка
roman: kosíčka
lang: Russian
word: коса́
roman: kosá
lang: Russian
word: хво́стик
roman: xvóstik
lang: Spanish
word: coleta
lang: Spanish
word: trenza
lang: Swedish
word: råttsvans
lang: Tagalog
word: trintas
lang: Tagalog
word: tirintas
lang: Welsh
word: plethyn
lang: German
word: Anschlussdraht
lang: German
word: Anschlussfaser
lang: Japanese
word: ピグテール
roman: pigutēru
lang: Korean
word: 피그테일
roman: pigeuteil