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Meanings of sty in English

Portuguese
hordéolo
Catalan
mussol
Spanish
orzuelo
Wikidata

An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.

        hordéolo
        Portuguese
        pocilgas
        Catalan
        porcellera
        Spanish
        zahurda

        A pen for swine.

              pocilgas
              Synonyms
              Examples for "pigsty"
              Examples for "pigsty"
              1
              In England, pigeon-dung and the cleanings of the pigsty are extensively employed.
              The Home Acre
              2
              Or where the house was a pigsty unless a visit was scheduled.
              The Girl I Used to Be
              3
              One of the loveliest we ever saw had originally been a pigsty.
              If You're Going to Live in the Country
              4
              Behind every house was a pigsty, behind nearly every one a cowshed.
              The Malady of the Century
              5
              You shall kick your bucket in the pigsty, you sinner...like a dog!'
              Selected Polish Tales
              1
              And he did not want to be dragged back to the pigpen.
              The Tale of Grunty Pig / Slumber-Town Tales
              2
              He grabbed the frame to keep from falling into the pigpen himself.
              Heart-shaped box
              3
              In the pigpen, two sows poked their flat snouts through the bars.
              Carrie
              4
              The truck, driven by Mr. Arable, crawled slowly back to the pigpen.
              Charlotte’s Web
              5
              It's just that the rock-biz, then as now, is a miserable pigpen.
              The Guardian
              Usage of sty in English
              1
              Then she opened the doors of the sty and waved her wand.
              Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
              2
              I'd rather sleep in a sty than stay in this stinking place.
              Hood
              3
              Two boys were approaching the sty, respect and caution in every step.
              Complete Books of Blood
              4
              The tent was a mere gipsy hovel, like a sty for pigs.
              Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
              5
              What chance had a young life in such a sty of filth?
              Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
              6
              A host of piglets rooted about three huge sows in the sty.
              A clash of kings
              7
              It was an old taxicab that he had converted into a sty.
              Shadows in the twilight
              8
              Our ancient house pulled down and made a sty for those hogs!
              A Son of the Immortals
              9
              And the girls heard the hungry grunting of a pig in its sty.
              A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
              10
              It was like the pigs in the sty at feeding time-squealing-jostling
              Captivity
              11
              Go out, child, and put up the pig in the sty.
              East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
              12
              Olaf drew back to the far corner of the pig sty.
              Olaf the Glorious: A Story of the Viking Age
              13
              Marc'antonio must have unpenned the hogs; for the sty was empty.
              Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
              14
              No amount of lipstick has been able to elevate it from the sty.
              The Irish Times
              15
              There they lie amid the filth, like hogs in a sty.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
              16
              Ed thought it would be better to call it the sty.
              Apocalypse of the Dead
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