Pig-tail

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pigtail \Pig"tail`\, n.
     1. The tail of a pig.
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     2. (Hair Dressing) A cue, or queue. --J. & H. Smith.
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     3. A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
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              The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail.
                                                    --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pigtail
       n : a braid of hair on either side of the face

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "pigtail":
     braid, brush, bun, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, cavendish,
     chaw, chew, chewing tobacco, chignon, coil, cud, cue, cut plug,
     dock, eating tobacco, fantail, fid, knot, navy, navy plug, plait,
     queue, quid, rattail, stub, tail, tailpiece, tobacco juice,
     topknot, twist
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  pig-tail [radio hams] A short piece of cable with two connectors on
     each end for converting between one connector type and another. Common
     pig-tails are 9-to-25-pin serial-port converters and cables to connect
     PCMCIA network cards to an RJ-45 network cable.