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 pigpen
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A video reposted on social media by China News Service, a state-run news agency, pointed out the low rate and showed a pigpen in China with an air conditioner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The pigpen squall of guitars makes a gloriously greasy mess, but Slocum’s vocals cut through like vinegar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
There’s even a pen for the pigs her son is raising for 4-H, a rare pigpen with a riverfront view.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Still another gave them a pigpen to set up on their land.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
At this hour, no people were around the pigpen, so the rat and the spider and the pig were by themselves.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Overnight Aureliano Segundo became the owner of land and livestock and he barely had time to enlarge his overflowing barns and pigpens.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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