"ponytail" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpoʊniˌteɪl/ [US] Forms: ponytails [plural]
Etymology: pony + tail Etymology templates: {{com|en|pony|tail}} pony + tail Head templates: {{en-noun}} ponytail (plural ponytails)
  1. A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head. Categories (topical): Hair Derived forms: ponytail palm Translations (hairstyle): ذَيْل الْحِصَان (ḏayl al-ḥiṣān) [masculine] (Arabic), ديل حصان (dél ḥuṣan) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), конска опашка (konska opaška) [feminine] (Bulgarian), cua [feminine] (Catalan), 馬尾 (Chinese Mandarin), 马尾 (mǎwěi) (Chinese Mandarin), 馬尾辮 (Chinese Mandarin), 马尾辫 (mǎwěibiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), culík [masculine] (Czech), hestehale [common-gender] (Danish), ponevosto (Esperanto), poninhäntä (Finnish), queue-de-cheval [feminine] (French), Pferdeschwanz [masculine] (German), Rossschwanz [Swiss-German, masculine] (German), αλογοουρά (alogoourá) [feminine] (Greek), lófarok (Hungarian), tagl [neuter] (Icelandic), stertur [masculine] (Icelandic), pónaí [masculine] (Irish), coda di cavallo [feminine] (Italian), ポニーテール (ponītēru) (Japanese), 포니테일 (poniteil) (Korean), ко́њска о́пашка (kónjska ópaška) [feminine] (Macedonian), о́павче (ópavče) [neuter] (Macedonian), coue d'ponîn [feminine] (Norman), hestehale [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hestehale [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kucyk [masculine] (Polish), rabo-de-cavalo [masculine] (Portuguese), coadă (Romanian), ко́нский хвост (kónskij xvost) [masculine] (Russian), хво́стик (xvóstik) [masculine] (Russian), coleta [feminine] (Spanish), cola de caballo [feminine] (Spanish), hästsvans [common-gender] (Swedish), puyod (Tagalog), หางม้า (hǎang-máa) (Thai), atkuyruğu (Turkish), cynffon merlen [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-ponytail-en-noun-4WbZnrhD Disambiguation of Hair: 56 44 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pony tail, pony-tail

Verb

IPA: /ˈpoʊniˌteɪl/ [US] Forms: ponytails [present, singular, third-person], ponytailing [participle, present], ponytailed [participle, past], ponytailed [past]
Etymology: pony + tail Etymology templates: {{com|en|pony|tail}} pony + tail Head templates: {{en-verb}} ponytail (third-person singular simple present ponytails, present participle ponytailing, simple past and past participle ponytailed)
  1. (transitive) To form (the hair) into a ponytail. Tags: transitive Related terms: pigtail
    Sense id: en-ponytail-en-verb-0SqlBWYY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pony tail, pony-tail

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
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      "code": "ko",
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      "word": "포니테일"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kónjska ópaška",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ко́њска о́пашка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ópavče",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "о́павче"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coue d'ponîn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hestehale"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hestehale"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kucyk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rabo-de-cavalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "word": "coadă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kónskij xvost",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ко́нский хвост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xvóstik",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хво́стик"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coleta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cola de caballo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hästsvans"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "word": "puyod"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hǎang-máa",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "word": "หางม้า"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "word": "atkuyruğu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "hairstyle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cynffon merlen"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ponytail"
  ],
  "word": "ponytail"
}

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    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English compound terms",
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        "2": "pony",
        "3": "tail"
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      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pony + tail",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ponytails",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "pigtail"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "2017, A. W. Hartoin, Brain Trust",
          "text": "“Don't mention it,” she said, ponytailing her hair and then sockbunning it with amazing speed.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To form (the hair) into a ponytail."
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        "(transitive) To form (the hair) into a ponytail."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpoʊniˌteɪl/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "pony tail"
    },
    {
      "word": "pony-tail"
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ponytail"
  ],
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}

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