pigsty
Americannoun
noun
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a pen for pigs; sty
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a dirty or untidy place
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Origin of pigsty
Example Sentences
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There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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
By then, he had grown increasingly frustrated by his reception in Britain, where he said that offering up his work to drama critics was like “rolling a Fabergé egg under a pigsty door.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
"I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends--in the modern world."
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
As the bats gorged themselves on fruit, they dropped pieces of food from the branches, along with their urine, into the pigsties, where at least one pig is believed to have eaten some.
From Salon ● May 10, 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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