pig·tail

(pĭg′tāl′)

1. A braid or ponytail, especially one of a pair worn one on each side of the head.

2. A short length of wire used to connect other wires to each other or to an electrical device.

3. A twisted roll of tobacco.

pig′tail′ v.

pig′tailed′ adj.

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pigtail

(ˈpɪɡˌteɪl)

1. (Hairdressing & Grooming) a bunch of hair or one of two bunches on either side of the face, worn loose or plaited

2. (Recreational Drugs) a twisted roll of tobacco

ˈpigˌtailed adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pig•tail

(ˈpɪgˌteɪl)

n.

1. a braid of hair hanging down the back of the head.

2. pigtails, two bunches of hair gathered and fastened on either side of the head, in braids or hanging freely.

3. tobacco in a thin, twisted roll.

[1680–90]

pigtail

- In the 17th century, it was tobacco twisted into a thin rope, which resembled the animal's tail.

pigtail

braid

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

pigtail - a plait of braided hair

braid, plait, tress, twist - a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

Translations

شَعْرٌ مَجْدُولٌ في ضَفْرَيـْنضَفيرة شَعْر تتَدَلّى من مؤَخَّرَة الرأس

cop

fletningrottehale

saparo

pletenica

copf

tíkarspenar

codino treccia

おさげ

땋아늘인 머리

råttsvans

หางเปีย

saç örgüsü

bím tóc

辫子

pigtail

[ˈpɪgteɪl] N (= plait) → trenza f; (of Chinese, bullfighter etc) → coleta f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pigtail

[ˈpɪgteɪl] n (= plait) → natte f
a little girl with pigtails → une petite fille avec des nattes
to wear one's hair in pigtails → porter des nattes

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pigtail

[ˈpɪgˌteɪl] n (plaited) → treccina; (loose) → codino

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pig

(pig) noun

1. a kind of farm animal whose flesh is eaten as pork, ham and bacon. He keeps pigs.

2. an offensive word for an unpleasant, greedy or dirty person. You pig!

ˈpiggy – plural ˈpiggies – noun

a child's word for a (little) pig.

adjective

like a pig's. piggy eyes.

ˈpiglet (-lit) noun

a baby pig.

piggybackpickabackˌpigˈheaded adjective

stubborn. a pigheaded idiot.

ˌpigˈheadedness noun

ˈpigskin noun, adjective

(of) a kind of leather made from the skin of a pig. Her purse was (made of) pigskin.

ˈpigsty – plural ˈpigsties, ~ˈpigstyes – noun

1. a building in which pigs are kept.

2. a dirty, untidy place. This room is a pigsty!

pigswillswillˈpigtail noun

a plait usually worn at the sides of the head. She wears her hair in pigtails.

pigs might fly

said of something very unlikely to happen. `We might have fine weather for our holidays.' `Yes, and pigs might fly!'

pigtail

→ شَعْرٌ مَجْدُولٌ في ضَفْرَيـْن cop fletning Zopf κοτσίδα coleta saparo natte pletenica codino おさげ 땋아늘인 머리 haarvlecht museflette warkoczyk trança косичка råttsvans หางเปีย saç örgüsü bím tóc 辫子

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Weller impressively; 'if you don't sleep a little less, and exercise a little more, wen you comes to be a man you'll lay yourself open to the same sort of personal inconwenience as was inflicted on the old gen'l'm'n as wore the pigtail.'

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She was a little girl with blue eyes and a flaxen pigtail. She would have kept my house like a new pin, and I should have had a son to carry on the business after me."

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He did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half-expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall.

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Wemmick had put all the biscuit into the post, and had paid me my money from a cash-box in a safe, the key of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his coat-collar like an iron pigtail, we went up-stairs.

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I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

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"Nonsense, nonsense!" cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand.

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The miserable pigtail Mongolian went to hewing away at the saplings all round the stems, like a worm o' the dust gnawing a radish.

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A few morsels of bread, with a fathom or two of white cotton cloth, and several pounds of choice pigtail, composed the extent of my possessions.

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Although he seemed, judging from the mud he had picked up on the way, to have come from London, his horse was as smooth and cool as his own iron-grey periwig and pigtail. Neither man nor beast had turned a single hair; and saving for his soiled skirts and spatter-dashes, this gentleman, with his blooming face, white teeth, exactly-ordered dress, and perfect calmness, might have come from making an elaborate and leisurely toilet, to sit for an equestrian portrait at old John Willet's gate.

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Higginbotham whom he had known in the way of trade, having sold him many a bunch of long nines, and a great deal of pigtail, lady's twist, and fig tobacco.

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It looked like a piratical division of loot; but Tom Platt came out of it roped with black pigtail and stuffed with cakes of chewing and smoking tobacco.

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But when I look at Miss Nancy here, I begin to think the lasses keep up their quality;--ding me if I remember a sample to match her, not when I was a fine young fellow, and thought a deal about my pigtail. No offence to you, madam," he added, bending to Mrs.

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