pigsty
Americannoun
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pigsties
plural
noun
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a pen for pigs; sty
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a dirty or untidy place
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Etymology
Origin of pigsty
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In Klong Toey, he met a Catholic nun, Sister Maria Chantavarodom, now 92, who led him through the narrow lanes and joined him in founding the tiny school in a former pigsty.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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 don’t know what to do, and I can’t just “let it go” because no one should live in a pigsty, and I’d hate for her whole house to be like this when she’s older.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2021
The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023
Some farmers supplemented their income with fruit orchards, planting trees next to open-air pigsties — perfect flying fox buffets.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
Mattila sat in pigsties and chicken coops to confirm that honey bees were landing in poop.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 9, 2020
As bats foraged among the farms’ trees, saliva-soaked pieces of fruit would have fallen into the pigsties, providing the pigs with irresistible morsels and repeated doses of the virus.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
Until my father sent for her to live in the Bronx, my mother delivered babies in beds and pigsties.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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