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A pigtail is hair twisted or plaited so it hangs in a rope, like a pig’s curly tail. You can have one down the back, or two, one on each side. Though actually, speakers do not all mean the same thing. In a lot of American English, pigtails — nearly always the plural — means two bunches of hair, one over each ear, and those bunches are sometimes not even plaited, just tied. In British English, a pigtail is more often a real plait. The word can also be a verb: to pigtail hair is to twist or plait it that way. It is an everyday, slightly playful word, used more for children than for formal adult hair. A is different: hair gathered in one bunch, not twisted into a plait.
辮子；兩側的小辮也常直接叫 pigtails。別和馬尾（ponytail）搞混：馬尾是紮一束，辮子才是編起來的。
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pigtailnoun/ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/
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The tail of a pig.
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Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
- 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.
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A braided plait of hair; queue.
- 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.
- 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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A braided plait of hair; queue.
- [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.
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A braided plait of hair; queue.
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A braided plait of hair; queue.
- […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”
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businesselectricalelectrical-engineeringA short length of twisted electrical wire.
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The flamingo flower (anthurium)
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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medicinesciencesTwisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.
pigtailverb/ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/
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businesselectricalelectrical-engineeringTo connect wires of a circuit by means of a short additional wire.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。