pigtail

Etymology

From pig + tail.

noun

1. 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. 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 265
2. A braided plait of hair; now especially, either of two braids or "tails" on the side of the head.
   [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. 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12
3. (informal) A person who wears a pigtail or queue.
   […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”] [2021-10-26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
4. (electrical engineering) A short length of twisted electrical wire.
5. The flamingo flower (anthurium)
6. The tail of a pig.
7. (medicine) Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.