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pigsty

American  
[pig-stahy] / ˈpɪgˌstaɪ /

noun

plural

pigsties

  1. pigpen.

pigsty British  
/ ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ /

noun

  1. a pen for pigs; sty

  2. a dirty or untidy place

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Etymology

Origin of pigsty

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

Example Sentences

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We’re jazzed and we’re hungry and we can’t face returning to the pigsty that is our Langley Park apartment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

In the absence of help, nearly anyone with baby twins has a pigsty of a house.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2022

He had a shattered leg, so was carried and dragged across a field by Pte O'Callaghan, who swerved to avoid a barn full of SS soldiers cooking a meal, until they found a pigsty.

From BBC • May 28, 2022

I wanted to show her the Vietnam that kept me awake at night—a shady trail outside the village of My Khe, a filthy old pigsty on the Batangan Peninsula.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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