pigtailed

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adjective

Having a pigtail.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivepigtailed (not comparable)

alternative pig-tailed

  1. not comparableHaving a pigtail.

    Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.

    1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time
    1 more example

    It was really fine, the first part in Australia, the two last in China, the latter particularly good, the burning of the English factories in Canton quite life-like, the Chinese buildings well portrayed, and those fellows, those rat-eating, chop-sticky, pig-tailed Chinamen, have an idea or two about living.

    1901, Gail Hamilton, edited by H. Augusta Dodge, Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 179
  2. not comparablebusinessConnected by means of a short additional wire.
verb

alternative pig-tailed

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of pigtail

Origin

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