pig tailとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• pig-tail

語源

From pig +‎ tail.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/

名詞

pigtail (plural pigtails)

1. (literally) The tail of a pig.
2. Tobacco twisted into a string or roll. [from 17th c.]
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 265:

     One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.

3. A braided plait of hair; queue. [from 18th c.]
   • 1861 May 1, “Volunteer Uniforms”, in The New York Times‎, volume X, number 3000, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 September 2025, page 4, column 5:

     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.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Speculations”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 123:

     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.

   1. (now especially) Either of a pair of braids or tails worn on the sides of the head.
      • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:

        [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

   2. (in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of pigtails.
   3. (colloquial, in the plural) A person who wears pigtails. [from 1911]
      • [2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

        […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”]

4. (electrical engineering) A short length of twisted electrical wire. [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: tail

5. The flamingo flower (anthurium)
6. (medicine) Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.

派生語

動詞

pigtail (third-person singular simple present pigtails, present participle pigtailing, simple past and past participle pigtailed)

1. (electrical engineering) To connect wires of a circuit by means of a short additional wire.

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pigtail”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.