See pigtail on Wiktionary
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"text": "Let padded breasts, high coat collars, stiff stocks, broad-shouldered straps, tight belts, trowser-straps and boots be consigned to the tomb of pigtails and powder.",
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"text": "Such a filthy spectacle as we presented I have never seen before or since, and it will perhaps give some idea of the almost superhuman dignity of Billali's appearance when I say that, coughing, half-drowned, and covered with mud and green slime as he was, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping point, like a Chinaman's freshly-oiled pigtail, he still looked venerable and imposing.",
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"en:Arum family plants",
"en:Hair",
"en:Tobacco"
],
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[
"pig",
"pig#English"
],
[
"tail",
"tail#English"
]
],
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"args": {
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"2": "pig",
"3": "tail"
},
"expansion": "pig + tail",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pig + tail.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pigtails",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pigtailing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pigtailed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pigtailed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pig-tail",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"en:Electrical engineering"
],
"glosses": [
"To connect wires of a circuit by means of a short additional wire."
],
"links": [
[
"electrical engineering",
"electrical engineering"
],
[
"connect",
"connect"
],
[
"wire",
"wire"
],
[
"circuit",
"circuit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(electrical engineering) To connect wires of a circuit by means of a short additional wire."
],
"topics": [
"business",
"electrical",
"electrical-engineering",
"electricity",
"electromagnetism",
"energy",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "pigtail"
}
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"msg": "''A braided plait of hair; queue'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"pigtail"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "pigtail",
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}
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