pigsty

noun

pig·​sty ˈpig-ˌstī How to pronounce pigsty (audio)
: pigpen

Examples of pigsty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty. Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024 The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Seeing Flora’s mangled dress in a pigsty corner sends a shudder through Joanie. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021 Bussi is unshaven and slovenly, living in a pigsty apartment and driving a Pontiac. Jay Weissberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021 It was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, later rebuilt, at some point secularized and over the centuries also served as a barn, a distillery and a pigsty, the John Cage Organ Project said on its website. Kirsten Grieshaber and Markus Schreiber, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1580, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pigsty was in 1580

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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pigsty. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

pigsty

noun
pig·​sty ˈpig-ˌstī How to pronounce pigsty (audio)
: pigpen

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