What (who) is Pigsty - definition

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Family farm hog pen; Pig pen; Hog pen; Hog pens; Pig pens; Raising hogs; Raising pigs; Pigsty; Pig sty; Pigcote; Pigcotes; Pig-cote; Pig-cotes; Pig cote; Pig cotes; Sties; Pigsties; Pig sties; Pigpens; Pig parlor; Pig parlors; A Sty; Family hog pen; Pigpen

pigsty

also pig sty (pigsties)

A pigsty is an enclosed place where pigs are kept on a farm. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use pigpen
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N-COUNT

If you describe a room or a house as a pigsty, you are criticizing the fact that it is very dirty and untidy. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)

The office is a pigsty.

= tip

N-COUNT: usu sing [disapproval]

pigsty

¦ noun (plural pigsties)

1. a pen or enclosure for a pig or pigs.

2. a very dirty or untidy house or room.

Pigsty

·noun A Pigpen.

Wikipedia

Sty

A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs as livestock. It is sometimes referred to as a hog pen, hog parlor, pigpen, pig parlor, or pig-cote, although pig pen may refer to pens confining pigs that are kept as pets as well. Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. "Sty" and "pigsty" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty, messy areas, the word sty deriving from the Proto-German stijan meaning filthy hovel. There are three contributing reasons that pigs, generally clean animals, create such a living environment:

Pigs are voracious eaters and will eat all the plants in the enclosure until there is nothing left to control erosion.
The pig will naturally root and dig for food in the enclosure, further disturbing the soil.
Pigs do not regulate temperature by sweating which means that they must be provided with water or mud in which they can control their own body temperature.

A large-scale enclosure for raising pigs is generally called a hog lot. Unlike a sty which would be found on a mixed farm, a hog lot is usually a dedicated facility.

A locked enclosure with confined/restricted movement & freedom to exercise, is known as a boar-stall. Although, according to some experts forced immobilization was believed to elevate cortisol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sty

Examples of use of Pigsty

1. On the vehicle hung a sign saying, "This election was a pigsty."

2. Paule lived until 1''3 when a neighbour found her body in the pigsty.

3. Peggy Hodgson was busily tidying up her terrace house in Enfield, North London, after her four boisterous children had once again left it looking like a pigsty.

4. Whenever Lord Emsworths sister and his sons were giving him a hard time he would retire to the pigsty and drape himself bonelessly over the fence to listen to the Empress eating.

5. There isn‘t one word in English that captures this. Ïîøëîñòü is like a fat sow dressed in a ball gown and tiara÷ "Trashy" gives you the dress, "saccharine" is the cute tiara, "philistine" is the snout, "pretentious" is the beribboned tail, but you still don‘t hear the oink or smell the pigsty.