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pigtailed

pigtailed adjective: having a pigtail. Also the simple past and past participle of pigtail.

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
    • Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time
  2. Connected by means of a short additional wire.

Also used as

pigtailed is also the simple past and past participle of pigtail.

Forms of pigtailed

alternative formpig-tailed

Origin of pigtailed

From pigtail + -ed.

Questions about pigtailed

What does pigtailed mean?
Pigtailed means having a pigtail.
What part of speech is pigtailed?
Pigtailed is an adjective.

Words near pigtailed in the dictionary

  1. pigswash
  2. pigswill
  3. pigtail
  4. pigtail macaque
  5. pigtail macaques
  6. pigtailed
  7. pigtailing
  8. pigtails
  9. pigtoe
  10. pigwash
  11. pigweed

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