Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually covered enclosure for pigs.
- noun Informal A dirty or very untidy place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sty or pen for pigs; a pig-pen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pigpen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shelter wherepigs are kept. - noun slang A
dirty or veryuntidy place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pen for swine
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Examples
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I think I see you — for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences — I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.
Lay Morals 2005
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I think I see you -- for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences -- I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.
Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I think I see you -- for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences -- I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Of course, this doesn't mean you should heed their every command, but if they tell you to clean up the "pigsty" - i.e. your room, it wouldn't hurt.
Cube Rules 2009
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Yes, happily, the pigsty was at the end of the wood-house, and could be reached under cover.
The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Peabody 1886
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The Freaney family lived in a three-bedroom terrace house in Salop Street, Penarth, which Mr Rees described as a "pigsty".
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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For the third time within a month, Stalybridge and Hyde MP and Cabinet Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, James Purnell has been yet again caught abusing the Parliamentary expenses by claiming £10,143 more for his rent on his London home which he left like a "pigsty".
Purnell Pockets £10k Tom Hagen 2009
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For the third time within a month, Stalybridge and Hyde MP and Cabinet Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, James Purnell has been yet again caught abusing the Parliamentary expenses by claiming £10,143 more for his rent on his London home which he left like a "pigsty".
Archive 2009-05-01 Tom Hagen 2009
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Personally, and you can call me naively optimistic, but I'm disappointed he made it back into his "pigsty" of a constituency.
The grannie's on... Jeff 2007
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These cottages are in themselves as ugly as possible, resembling a large kind of pigsty; but often, by dint of the verdure on their thatch and the shrubbery clustering about them, they look picturesque.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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