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pig-tailed

pig-tailed is the alternative form of pigtailed.

Meaning of pigtailed

Adjective

pigtailed (not comparable)

  1. Having a pigtail.
    • 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...1901, Gail Hamilton, edited by H. Augusta Dodge, Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 179
  2. Connected by means of a short additional wire.

Phrases with pig-tailed

Questions about pig-tailed

What is pig-tailed the alternative form of?
Pig-tailed is the alternative form of pigtailed.

Words near pig-tailed in the dictionary

  1. pig-sticking
  2. pig-stickings
  3. pig-tail
  4. pig-tail splice
  5. pig-tail splices
  6. pig-tailed
  7. pig-tailed baboon
  8. pig-tailed langur
  9. pig-tailed langurs
  10. pig-tailed macaque
  11. pig-tailed macaques

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