sty
1a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
any filthy place or abode.
a place of bestial debauchery.
to keep or lodge in or as if in a sty.
to live in or as if in a sty.
Origin of sty
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or stye
a circumscribed abscess caused by bacterial infection of the glands on the edge of the eyelid; hordeolum.
Origin of sty
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How to use sty in a sentence
It was a small sty and easily treatable, but Sherber still wanted to know what caused it.
Bacteria can grow on your neglected makeup and brushes. Here’s what to toss and what to clean. | Allyson Chiu | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostThe place was a ruin; literally, the pig sty of a collective farm.
From a Polish Country House Kitchen ... To Your Kitchen | David Frum | December 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt took a few days to turn this place into something other than a pig sty, which it was.
Thereupon dug the thrall a large ditch in the sty & carried away the earth, and afterwards placed wood across it.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonNow by them in the sty had they a light there with them, and the Earl said: Why art thou so pale, yet withal as black as earth?
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri Sturluson
Howbeit one place is there wherein would I never seek for such a man 62 as thou, and that is in the swine-sty.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonIn the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.
Grimms' Fairy Tales | The Brothers GrimmIn a few hours it will matter little whether old Ephraim Lovegrove lived and died in a pig-sty or a palace.
British Dictionary definitions for sty
/ (staɪ) /
a pen in which pigs are housed and fed
any filthy or corrupt place
to enclose or be enclosed in a sty
Origin of sty
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