PIGTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pigtail mean? 

• PIGTAIL (noun)
  The noun PIGTAIL has 1 sense:

1. a plait of braided hair

  Familiarity information: PIGTAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIGTAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plait of braided hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pigtail" is a kind of...):

braid; plait; tress; twist (a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair)

 Context examples 

A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)