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
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
The village center was abandoned, the nearby river polluted, the forest cut down, the local school turned into a pigpen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Still another gave them a pigpen to set up on their land.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
And they made a complete pigpen of the bunkhouse, didn’t they, Buddy?”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows.
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
Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Point Prospect camp-ground south of Rose Hill was said to be swarming with soldiers who made forays on chicken coops, pigpens, and smokehouses where winter meat was hung.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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