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pig·sty

 (pĭg′stī′)
n. pl. pig·sties
1. A usually covered enclosure for pigs.
2. Informal A dirty or very untidy place.
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pigsty

(ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ) or

pigpen

n, pl -sties
1. (Agriculture) a pen for pigs; sty
2. Brit a dirty or untidy place
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pig•pen

(ˈpɪgˌpɛn)

n.
1. a pen for keeping pigs.
2. a filthy or flagrantly untidy place.
[1795–1805]
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pigsty

pigpen
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pigsty - a pen for swinepigsty - a pen for swine      
pen - an enclosure for confining livestock
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Translations
زَريبَة أو حَظيرَة الخَنازيرمكان قَذِر، مِثْل الزَّريبه
chlívprasečí chlívek
lossepladssvinesti
svinjac
svínastía
豚舎
svinjak
svinjac
dağınık yerdomuz ağılı/ahırımezbelelikpis

pigsty

[ˈpɪgstaɪ] Npocilga f, porqueriza f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pigsty

[ˈpɪgstaɪ] n (mainly British)
(= pigpen) → enclos m à cochons
(= tip) → porcherie f
It's a pigsty in here! → C'est une porcherie ici !
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pigsty

[ˈpɪgˌstaɪ] n (also) (fig) → porcile m
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pig

(pig) noun
1. a kind of farm animal whose flesh is eaten as pork, ham and bacon. He keeps pigs.
2. an offensive word for an unpleasant, greedy or dirty person. You pig!
ˈpiggyplural ˈpiggies noun
a child's word for a (little) pig.
adjective
like a pig's. piggy eyes.
ˈpiglet (-lit) noun
a baby pig.
piggybackpickabackˌpigˈheaded adjective
stubborn. a pigheaded idiot.
ˌpigˈheadedness noun
ˈpigskin noun, adjective
(of) a kind of leather made from the skin of a pig. Her purse was (made of) pigskin.
ˈpigstyplural ˈpigsties, ~ˈpigstyes noun
1. a building in which pigs are kept.
2. a dirty, untidy place. This room is a pigsty!
pigswillswillˈpigtail noun
a plait usually worn at the sides of the head. She wears her hair in pigtails.
pigs might fly
said of something very unlikely to happen. `We might have fine weather for our holidays.' `Yes, and pigs might fly!'
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References in classic literature ?
He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot.
'What can that commotion be by the pigsties?' asked the Emperor, who was standing on the balcony.
"That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties."
We don't talk to people in Threadneedle Street about nothing but turnips and pigsties. Why do we talk to people in Somerset about nothing but slums and socialism?
I was glad when we came to the brickmaker's house, though it was one of a cluster of wretched hovels in a brick-field, with pigsties close to the broken windows and miserable little gardens before the doors growing nothing but stagnant pools.
I put up with it, but I immediately pulled down the cow barn, the pigsties, the chicken houses, everything--made a clean sweep.
He has employed two workers and their work starts at 6am dairy, where they clean the pigsties and do the first feeding at 9am.
The health department recommends for people who frequent high risk areas like pigsties or paddy fields to make an effort to keep their vaccination up to date, said the head of Yunlin County's Public Health Bureau, Wu Chao-chun, reported the Economic Daily.
Four buildings on the site, including a cowhouse, pigsties and barns, were all awarded grade II-listed status in 2016 and these will all now be renovated.
Drama teacher Laura Dayman and other staff at Cardiff's Cantonian High showed pupils they love reading so much they'll do it anywhere - in pigsties, skips and even on trampolines.