STY

Sty

A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs. It is sometimes referred to as a hog pen, hog parlor, pigpen, pig parlor, or pig-cote. Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. Both "sty" and "pigpen" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty, messy areas. There are three contributing reasons that pigs, generally clean animals, create such a living environment:

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sty

Noun

  1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
  2. A messy, dirty or debauched place.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A ladder.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. An inflammation of the eyelid.

Verb

  1. To place in, or as if in, a sty.
  2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To ascend, rise up, climb.


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