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pigsty

[ pig-stahy ]

noun

, plural pig·sties.


pigsty

/ ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ /

noun

  1. a pen for pigs; sty
  2. a dirty or untidy place


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pigsty1

First recorded in 1585–95; pig 1 + sty 1

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Example Sentences

Former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo famously dubbed it a “pigsty.”

This week: We learn Versailles was a pigsty, Virginia Woolf despised writing articles, and money is very dangerous.

There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.

Between us and the dwelling house there was a disused pigsty.

A portrait might have been finished, and with disengaged eyes Evelyn would survey what he would certainly call his pigsty.

There were two windows: one looked full on the fir-trees; the other on the farm-yard, with the pigsty closing the view.

The pigsty soon became too narrow.44 The animals obstructed the farmyard, broke down the fences, and went gnawing at everything.

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