pigtail
/ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A short length of twisted electrical wire.
noun
The flamingo flower (anthurium)
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The Big Man came on. His shoulders were naked, his clothes stripped off him by the explosion, Bond supposed, but the black silk tie had remained and it showed round the thick neck and streamed behind the head like a Chinaman's pigtail."
- "[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.”"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/
- British English: /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/