pigtailn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪɡteɪl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪɡˌteɪl/

Forms:

α. See pig n.¹ and tail n.¹

β. 1600s pigs tail.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pig n.¹, tail n.¹

Etymology: < pig n.¹ + tail n.¹ In β forms < the genitive of pig n.¹ + tail n.¹

1. A short length or twist of something.

a. As a mass noun: tobacco twisted into a thin rope or roll.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick

cane-tobacco1600

pudding tobacco1601

roll1602

tobacco roll1602

canea1612

pudding-packa1618

prick1666

pigtail1681

nova1688

prick tobacco1688

plug1729

plug tobacco1788

twist1791

carrot1808

cavendish1839

nail-rod1848

hard1865

twist tobacco1894

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 8 There lyes half a dozen elnes of pig-tail.

1740 J. Swift Will (1746) 20 I bequeath to Mr. John Grattan..my Silver Box..in which I desire the said John to keep the Tobacco he usually cheweth, called Pigtail.

1790 Pennsylvania Packet 13 July 1/4 Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory Carried on by Jacob Beninghove... Has and always keeps, a constant supply of the best Pigtail.

1818 G. Daniel Doctor Bolus vi. 15 My heart is swelling with a big tale Of woe—let's see, I'll try a little pig-tail.

1875 J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras 87 A Missourian..lay in his bunk.., smoking his pipe of ‘pigtail’ after supper.

1907 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 28 Mar. 13/6 ‘Hah!’ he sighed, taking out a steel tobacco box and knife, and cutting off a bit of pigtail.

1993 R. Murphy Smash & Grab v. 68/1 ‘Pigtail’, a thin black rope of tobacco, was the standard currency of the prison.

†b. English regional (northern). A small candle. Cf. pigtail candle n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > candle(s) defined by price or weight

puttock1691

makeweight1695

long four1798

pigtail1824

long lady1847

fourteens1883

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 99 The watching of the pig-tail was a superstitious ceremony observed in Craven..on the Eve of St. Mark. On that evening, a party of males or females..place on the floor a lighted pig-tail, for so a small or farthing candle is denominated.

1840 A. Langton Jrnl. (1950) 143 Ten dippings made very respectable candles today, whereas what I was obliged to make in summer after four-and-twenty [dippings] were most miserable pig-tails.

1867 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Folk-lore 140 On the fast of St. Agnes she watches a small candle called a ‘pig-tail’, to see the passing image of her future husband.

†c. Nautical. A short length of rope. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > types of short ropes

leg1611

snorter1750

snotter1815

pigtail1894

1894 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 6/5 Hit..with a ‘pigtail’, a piece of thick rope.

d. A short length of flexible braided electrical wire. Also: a cable running from the back of a tractor to a trailer, supplying it with electricity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > flexible conductor

pigtail1903

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > conductor > device

conductor1742

sub-conductor1887

pigtail1971

1903 C. C. Hawkins & F. Wallis Dynamo (ed. 3) xix. 606 The flexible copper conductor..forms a twisted pig-tail with enough slack to allow of the normal amount of brush movement.

1949 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 20 805/2 Some cartridges..were fitted with pigtails for convenience in wiring.

1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 118 Pigtail, the cable that transmits electricity to the trailer from the tractor.

1992 UNIX Today! 17 Feb. 14/1 CSP has a version with an 18-inch ‘pigtail’ cable holding the AUI plug.

a. A plait or tail of hair.In early use: a single plait or queue of hair hanging down from the back of the head, as in a particular style of wig, or as worn by soldiers and sailors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; a long plait of hair as formerly worn by the Chinese. Now chiefly: each of two tails of (usually plaited) hair hanging from either side of the head, as worn esp. by young girls (cf. ponytail n.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits

tracec1380

plight?1387

tressa1400

plexc1450

braid1530

tuck1532

buoy-rope1546

trammels1589

entrammelling1598

border1601

point1604

pleat?1606

trammelets1654

maze1657

brede1696

queue1724

pigtail?1725

tie1725

cue1731

tuck-up1749

tutulus1753

club1786

tail1799

French twist1850

Grecian plait1851

French plait1871

horse's tail1873

Gretchen braid, plait1890

shimada1910

ponytail1916

French braid1937

cane row1939

dreadlocks1960

French pleat1964

Tom Jones1964

corn row1971

dread1984

club-pigtail-

?1725 At the Blue Peruke in Red-Lion-street (T. Barker, Peruke-maker) (single sheet) (advt.) His Prices are Two Shillings and Six Pence for each Bob..and Three Shillings a Pig-Tail.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1777) iv. xxxv. 254 The French carpenter cannot saw his boards, without a long pig-tail and ruffled shirt.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 122 [Mrs. Kenwigs' girls] had flaxen hair tied with blue ribands hanging in luxuriant pigtails down their backs.

1874 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World I. 280 Chinamen..with their black caps, equally black pig-tails..and their black felt shoes.

1892 ‘A. M.’ From Austral. & Japan 226 He..wiped his grizzled moustache and twisted its extremities into pig-tails.

1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 45 Carlyle had scowled at her; Matthew Arnold had held her on his knee; Tennyson had sonorously rallied her on the length of her pig-tail.

1958 Life 19 May 91 She has been so vividly remembered for her freckles, pigtails, tilted nose, wistful eyes and gaminlike cuteness that everybody still imagines her that way.

1991 Hair's How No. 34. 808/2 Divide the ponytail in two, then plait to form two pigtails.

b. colloquial (frequently derogatory and offensive). A person who wears a pigtail, esp. a Chinese person. Now rare or historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China

Cathayan?1520

Chinean1577

Son of Heaven1579

Chino1588

chinois1594

Chinese1606

Chinesianc1615

Chinaman1621

China1638

Chinist1654

Chinensian1655

pigtail1823

celestial1842

Johnny1844

coolie1849

John1853

Chinky1871

chow1872

Chink1880

monk1903

Pong1910

power point1986

1823 M. E. Barker in London Lit. Gaz. 6 Sept. 573/1 You shall have all their pictures, from the president..down to the last old Pigtail admitted.

1886 Cornhill Mag. July 55 Sweetmeats..being great favourites with the ‘pigtails’.

1907 C. MacAlister Old Pioneering Days 207 The fall broke the poor ‘pigtail's’ neck.

1947–8 in H. Beattie Pioneer Recolls. (1956) 39 Later they put on Peter, a modern ‘Chink’, to help him but Ah See chased him off saying ‘Him no Chinese—him no pigtail’.

2001 Jrnl. Eastern Township Stud. (Nexis) Mar. 19–36 The Chinese were referred to by slang names like ‘Yellow Peril’, ‘Celestials’, ‘Sojourners’, ‘Chinks’, ‘Pigtails’, and ‘The Menace’.

3. = pig-tailed macaque n. at pigtailed adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > miscellaneous types of

pigtailed monkey1758

pigtail1774

kra1822

pigtailed baboon1824

pig-tailed macaque1840

round-faced monkey1864

pigtail macaque1867

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 215 The Maimon of Buffon, which Edwards calls the Pigtail, is the last of the baboons, and..no larger than a cat.

1966 Science 23 Dec. 1559/3 Since male pigtails are usually killed off quickly by hunters, it is possible that at some point only one or two females of the pigtail troop survived.

1992 Science (Nexis) 19 June 1630 With a large population of pigtails close at hand, they decided it was worth a try.

Compounds

C1. derogatory. Designating or relating to a person who wears a pigtail; designating something characteristic of the period when pigtailed wigs were worn; (hence) designating something old-fashioned, pedantic, or excessively formal, as pigtail drill, pigtail party, pigtail professor, pigtail Tory, etc. Now rare.In quot. 1899 designating a party favourable to the Chinese (see sense 2b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated

moth-frettenOE

antiquate?a1425

antique?1532

rusty1549

moth-eaten1551

musty1575

worm-eatenc1575

overyear1584

out of date1589

old-fashioned1592

out of date1592

worm-eat1597

old-fashion1599

ancient1601

outdated1616

out-of-fashion1623

over-aged1623

superannuateda1634

thorough-old1639

overdateda1641

trunk-hosea1643

antiquitated1645

antiquated1654

out-of-fashioned1671

unmodern1731

of the old school1749

auld-farrant1750

old-fangled1764

fossila1770

fogram1772

passé1775

unmodernized1775

oxidated1791

moss-covered1792

square-toeda1797

old-fashionable1807

pigtail1817

behind the times1826

slow1827

fossilized1828

rococo1836

antiquish1838

old-timey1850

out of season1850

moss-grown1851

old style1858

antiqued1859

pigtaily1859

prehistoric1859

backdated1862

played1864

fossiled1866

bygone1869

mossy-backed1870

old-worldly1878

past-time1889

outmoded1896

dated1900

brontosaurian1909

antiquey1926

horse-and-buggy1926

vintage1928

Neolithic1934

time-warped1938

demoded1941

steam age1941

hairy1946

old school1946

rinky-dink1946

time warp1954

Palaeolithic1957

retardataire1958

throwback1968

wally1969

antwacky1975

1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 Jan. 121 What, then, do the Pigtail gentry, assembled at the ‘Police Office, Manchester’, object to this?

1865 M. Pattison in N. Brit. Rev. 42 253 Heyne was essentially a dull, wooden man,—a pigtail professor after all.

1885 Leisure Hour Jan. 32/1 Emancipation from the ‘pigtail drill’.

1898 Athenæum 19 Mar. 366/1 He was a typical ‘pigtail Tory’.

1899 Daily News 25 Oct. 2/1 Mr. Yerburgh, the leader of what was known last Session as ‘the Pigtail Party’ in the House of Commons, is contemplating a journey to China.

1909 Englishman Apr. 295 Orchestral interpretation need no longer be at the mercy of the ‘pig-tail’ school.

C2.

† pigtail candle n. Obsolete rare = sense 1b.

ΚΠ

1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 334 A Pigtail Candle, the least, put in to make weight.

pigtail macaque n. = pig-tailed macaque n. at pigtailed adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

pigtailed monkey1758

pigtail1774

kra1822

pigtailed baboon1824

pig-tailed macaque1840

round-faced monkey1864

pigtail macaque1867

1790 Historical Pocket Libr. VI. 69 Little Baboon, and the Pigtail Baboon are all that remain of this species.]

1867 J. G. Wood Pop. Nat. Hist.: Mammalia 16 Bruh or Pig-tail Macaque.—Macacus nemestrinus.

1992 Sci. News 20 June 405/1 Corey..has successfully infected with HIV-1 a common type of Indonesian monkey called the pigtail macaque.

pigtail tobacco n. = sense 1a.

ΚΠ

1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 12 Feb. 3/2 Silk handkerchiefs for men and women, scotch snuff, rapee and english pig-tail tobacco.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. 32 A piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end.

1992 R. Park Fence around Cuckoo 37 It had..an interior atmosphere thick with the woeful fumes of torori, the black native pigtail tobacco.

pigtail toupée n. rare a toupée with a tail of hair at the back.

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 479 Smiling, lifts the hat and displays a shaven poll from the crown of which bristles a pigtail toupee tied with an orange topknot.

pigtail wig n. a wig with a tail of hair at the back.

ΚΠ

1730 E. Thomas Metamorphosis of Town 22 Sir, Do not look so fierce, and big, It is a modish Pigtail Wig.

1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus II. xxvi. 34 He..slowly drew the pig-tail wig like an ascending hair-balloon up into the air.

2003 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 28 Feb. 25 To play Watt, Stephen dons breeches and stockings, waistcoat and a pigtail wig.

Derivatives

ˈpigtail-wise adv. rare

ΚΠ

1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 199 Her ample tresses one descries Are closely plaited, pig-tail-wise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pigtail
释义	pigtailn. Brit. /ˈpɪɡteɪl/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌteɪl/ Forms: α. See pig n.¹ and tail n.¹ β. 1600s pigs tail. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pig n.¹, tail n.¹ Etymology: < pig n.¹ + tail n.¹ In β forms < the genitive of pig n.¹ + tail n.¹ 1. A short length or twist of something. a. As a mass noun: tobacco twisted into a thin rope or roll. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick cane-tobacco1600 pudding tobacco1601 roll1602 tobacco roll1602 canea1612 pudding-packa1618 prick1666 pigtail1681 nova1688 prick tobacco1688 plug1729 plug tobacco1788 twist1791 carrot1808 cavendish1839 nail-rod1848 hard1865 twist tobacco1894 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 8 There lyes half a dozen elnes of pig-tail. 1740 J. Swift Will (1746) 20 I bequeath to Mr. John Grattan..my Silver Box..in which I desire the said John to keep the Tobacco he usually cheweth, called Pigtail. 1790 Pennsylvania Packet 13 July 1/4 Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory Carried on by Jacob Beninghove... Has and always keeps, a constant supply of the best Pigtail. 1818 G. Daniel Doctor Bolus vi. 15 My heart is swelling with a big tale Of woe—let's see, I'll try a little pig-tail. 1875 J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras 87 A Missourian..lay in his bunk.., smoking his pipe of ‘pigtail’ after supper. 1907 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 28 Mar. 13/6 ‘Hah!’ he sighed, taking out a steel tobacco box and knife, and cutting off a bit of pigtail. 1993 R. Murphy Smash & Grab v. 68/1 ‘Pigtail’, a thin black rope of tobacco, was the standard currency of the prison. †b. English regional (northern). A small candle. Cf. pigtail candle n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > candle(s) defined by price or weight puttock1691 makeweight1695 long four1798 pigtail1824 long lady1847 fourteens1883 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 99 The watching of the pig-tail was a superstitious ceremony observed in Craven..on the Eve of St. Mark. On that evening, a party of males or females..place on the floor a lighted pig-tail, for so a small or farthing candle is denominated. 1840 A. Langton Jrnl. (1950) 143 Ten dippings made very respectable candles today, whereas what I was obliged to make in summer after four-and-twenty [dippings] were most miserable pig-tails. 1867 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Folk-lore 140 On the fast of St. Agnes she watches a small candle called a ‘pig-tail’, to see the passing image of her future husband. †c. Nautical. A short length of rope. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > types of short ropes leg1611 snorter1750 snotter1815 pigtail1894 1894 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 6/5 Hit..with a ‘pigtail’, a piece of thick rope. d. A short length of flexible braided electrical wire. Also: a cable running from the back of a tractor to a trailer, supplying it with electricity. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > flexible conductor pigtail1903 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > conductor > device conductor1742 sub-conductor1887 pigtail1971 1903 C. C. Hawkins & F. Wallis Dynamo (ed. 3) xix. 606 The flexible copper conductor..forms a twisted pig-tail with enough slack to allow of the normal amount of brush movement. 1949 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 20 805/2 Some cartridges..were fitted with pigtails for convenience in wiring. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 118 Pigtail, the cable that transmits electricity to the trailer from the tractor. 1992 UNIX Today! 17 Feb. 14/1 CSP has a version with an 18-inch ‘pigtail’ cable holding the AUI plug. 2. a. A plait or tail of hair.In early use: a single plait or queue of hair hanging down from the back of the head, as in a particular style of wig, or as worn by soldiers and sailors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; a long plait of hair as formerly worn by the Chinese. Now chiefly: each of two tails of (usually plaited) hair hanging from either side of the head, as worn esp. by young girls (cf. ponytail n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits tracec1380 plight?1387 tressa1400 plexc1450 braid1530 tuck1532 buoy-rope1546 trammels1589 entrammelling1598 border1601 point1604 pleat?1606 trammelets1654 maze1657 brede1696 queue1724 pigtail?1725 tie1725 cue1731 tuck-up1749 tutulus1753 club1786 tail1799 French twist1850 Grecian plait1851 French plait1871 horse's tail1873 Gretchen braid, plait1890 shimada1910 ponytail1916 French braid1937 cane row1939 dreadlocks1960 French pleat1964 Tom Jones1964 corn row1971 dread1984 club-pigtail- ?1725 At the Blue Peruke in Red-Lion-street (T. Barker, Peruke-maker) (single sheet) (advt.) His Prices are Two Shillings and Six Pence for each Bob..and Three Shillings a Pig-Tail. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1777) iv. xxxv. 254 The French carpenter cannot saw his boards, without a long pig-tail and ruffled shirt. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 122 [Mrs. Kenwigs' girls] had flaxen hair tied with blue ribands hanging in luxuriant pigtails down their backs. 1874 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World I. 280 Chinamen..with their black caps, equally black pig-tails..and their black felt shoes. 1892 ‘A. M.’ From Austral. & Japan 226 He..wiped his grizzled moustache and twisted its extremities into pig-tails. 1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 45 Carlyle had scowled at her; Matthew Arnold had held her on his knee; Tennyson had sonorously rallied her on the length of her pig-tail. 1958 Life 19 May 91 She has been so vividly remembered for her freckles, pigtails, tilted nose, wistful eyes and gaminlike cuteness that everybody still imagines her that way. 1991 Hair's How No. 34. 808/2 Divide the ponytail in two, then plait to form two pigtails. b. colloquial (frequently derogatory and offensive). A person who wears a pigtail, esp. a Chinese person. Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China Cathayan?1520 Chinean1577 Son of Heaven1579 Chino1588 chinois1594 Chinese1606 Chinesianc1615 Chinaman1621 China1638 Chinist1654 Chinensian1655 pigtail1823 celestial1842 Johnny1844 coolie1849 John1853 Chinky1871 chow1872 Chink1880 monk1903 Pong1910 power point1986 1823 M. E. Barker in London Lit. Gaz. 6 Sept. 573/1 You shall have all their pictures, from the president..down to the last old Pigtail admitted. 1886 Cornhill Mag. July 55 Sweetmeats..being great favourites with the ‘pigtails’. 1907 C. MacAlister Old Pioneering Days 207 The fall broke the poor ‘pigtail's’ neck. 1947–8 in H. Beattie Pioneer Recolls. (1956) 39 Later they put on Peter, a modern ‘Chink’, to help him but Ah See chased him off saying ‘Him no Chinese—him no pigtail’. 2001 Jrnl. Eastern Township Stud. (Nexis) Mar. 19–36 The Chinese were referred to by slang names like ‘Yellow Peril’, ‘Celestials’, ‘Sojourners’, ‘Chinks’, ‘Pigtails’, and ‘The Menace’. 3. = pig-tailed macaque n. at pigtailed adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > miscellaneous types of pigtailed monkey1758 pigtail1774 kra1822 pigtailed baboon1824 pig-tailed macaque1840 round-faced monkey1864 pigtail macaque1867 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 215 The Maimon of Buffon, which Edwards calls the Pigtail, is the last of the baboons, and..no larger than a cat. 1966 Science 23 Dec. 1559/3 Since male pigtails are usually killed off quickly by hunters, it is possible that at some point only one or two females of the pigtail troop survived. 1992 Science (Nexis) 19 June 1630 With a large population of pigtails close at hand, they decided it was worth a try. Compounds C1. derogatory. Designating or relating to a person who wears a pigtail; designating something characteristic of the period when pigtailed wigs were worn; (hence) designating something old-fashioned, pedantic, or excessively formal, as pigtail drill, pigtail party, pigtail professor, pigtail Tory, etc. Now rare.In quot. 1899 designating a party favourable to the Chinese (see sense 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 Jan. 121 What, then, do the Pigtail gentry, assembled at the ‘Police Office, Manchester’, object to this? 1865 M. Pattison in N. Brit. Rev. 42 253 Heyne was essentially a dull, wooden man,—a pigtail professor after all. 1885 Leisure Hour Jan. 32/1 Emancipation from the ‘pigtail drill’. 1898 Athenæum 19 Mar. 366/1 He was a typical ‘pigtail Tory’. 1899 Daily News 25 Oct. 2/1 Mr. Yerburgh, the leader of what was known last Session as ‘the Pigtail Party’ in the House of Commons, is contemplating a journey to China. 1909 Englishman Apr. 295 Orchestral interpretation need no longer be at the mercy of the ‘pig-tail’ school. C2. † pigtail candle n. Obsolete rare = sense 1b. ΚΠ 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 334 A Pigtail Candle, the least, put in to make weight. pigtail macaque n. = pig-tailed macaque n. at pigtailed adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > miscellaneous types of pigtailed monkey1758 pigtail1774 kra1822 pigtailed baboon1824 pig-tailed macaque1840 round-faced monkey1864 pigtail macaque1867 1790 Historical Pocket Libr. VI. 69 Little Baboon, and the Pigtail Baboon are all that remain of this species.] 1867 J. G. Wood Pop. Nat. Hist.: Mammalia 16 Bruh or Pig-tail Macaque.—Macacus nemestrinus. 1992 Sci. News 20 June 405/1 Corey..has successfully infected with HIV-1 a common type of Indonesian monkey called the pigtail macaque. pigtail tobacco n. = sense 1a. ΚΠ 1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 12 Feb. 3/2 Silk handkerchiefs for men and women, scotch snuff, rapee and english pig-tail tobacco. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. 32 A piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end. 1992 R. Park Fence around Cuckoo 37 It had..an interior atmosphere thick with the woeful fumes of torori, the black native pigtail tobacco. pigtail toupée n. rare a toupée with a tail of hair at the back. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 479 Smiling, lifts the hat and displays a shaven poll from the crown of which bristles a pigtail toupee tied with an orange topknot. pigtail wig n. a wig with a tail of hair at the back. ΚΠ 1730 E. Thomas Metamorphosis of Town 22 Sir, Do not look so fierce, and big, It is a modish Pigtail Wig. 1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus II. xxvi. 34 He..slowly drew the pig-tail wig like an ascending hair-balloon up into the air. 2003 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 28 Feb. 25 To play Watt, Stephen dons breeches and stockings, waistcoat and a pigtail wig. Derivatives ˈpigtail-wise adv. rare ΚΠ 1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 199 Her ample tresses one descries Are closely plaited, pig-tail-wise. 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