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"PIGTAILS" is a plural of: pigtail. |
Date "PIGTAILS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pigtails (The). The Chinese; so called because the Tartar tonsure and braided queue are very general. "We laid away telling one another of the pigtails till we both dropped off to sleep."- Tales about the Chinese. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PIGTAILSSynonym: Braids (Hairdressing). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What I know is, a grown woman shouldn't wear pigtails. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pigtails and Peaches (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Woman in black with umbrella looking disparagingly at crying girl in pigtails with a doll carriage. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "PIGTAILS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "PIGTAILS" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 91.67% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Misspellings | |
"PIGTAILS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Phigalia, pitais, Pittalis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pigtail. | |
-2 letters: gaslit, pastil, pistil, plaits, spital. | |
-3 letters: agist, alist, gaits, gilts, glias, lapis, litai, litas, pails, pilis, pitas, plait, plats, sigil, slipt, spail, spait, spilt, splat, split, staig, tails, tapis, tipis. | |
-4 letters: ails, aits, alit, alps, alts, gait, gals, gaps, gasp, gast, gats, gilt, gips, gist, gits, glia, ilia, lags, laps, last, lati. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: plaitings. | |
+2 letters: plagiarist, spoliating, springtail. | |
+3 letters: displanting, misplanting, palletising, plagiarists, plaistering, salpingitis, springtails, stipulating. | |
+4 letters: capitalising, earsplitting, plagiaristic, plasticizing, playwritings, supplicating. | |
+5 letters: angioplasties, calligraphist, hairsplitting, hospitalising, hospitalizing, lithographies, painstakingly, parasitologic, primatologies, primatologist, prodigalities, salpingitises, slipstreaming, spaghettilike, trampolinings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 47 54 41 49 4C 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .. --. - .- .. .-.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001001 01000111 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P I G T A I L S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0049 0047 0054 0041 0049 004C 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5043415435434653 |
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