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Meanings of pigsty (pigsties) in English

Portuguese
pocilgas
Catalan
porcellera
Spanish
zahurda

A place where pigs are kept and reared.

pocilgas
Usage of pigsties in English
1
Last time I passed through I noticed some pigsties up against the palace wall.
Wolf hall
2
Outside is a barn, five pigsties and a granite well.
The Irish Times
3
Owing to these fresh boots we were spared the pigsties.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
4
We don't talk to people in Threadneedle Street about nothing but turnips and pigsties.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
5
His model pigsties and cottages were unpopular, but he loved his animals and understood them.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
6
I saw beyond me a few farm-buildings, a byre, several pigsties, and three disused waggons.
Jim Davis
7
A young brother, a novice, was busy, with his frock hitched up, cleaning out the pigsties.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
8
Who else would think about the pigsties?
Wolf hall
9
I heard a shilling a week spoken of as rent for these abominable pigsties, collected every Saturday night.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
10
Under this barn, which was used mainly for sheep and young cattle, there were several pigsties, now empty.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
11
The last work was the building of pigsties-rudeindeed and made of a few slabs-butsufficient to answer the purpose.
Hodge and His Masters
12
Usually there are one or two curious beehive-like structures in these villages, used here, it is said, as pigsties or storehouses.
In Wicklow and West Kerry
13
Their studio was a cowshed (later replaced by a row of converted pigsties) on Firmin's farm near Canterbury, in Kent.
The Guardian
14
We may not build such grand and imposing structures, but we do not let our children grow up in pigsties, he thought.
Secret of the Dragon
15
They found him hiding in a tanner's shop amid the flayed hides and they chased his army through the pigsties and gardens.
The Lady of the Rivers
16
The hot scent of the trees and the garden mingled with the smell of manure, pigsties, cooking pig-wash and Vessons' 'Tom Moody' tobacco.
Gone to Earth
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Pigsties through the time