sty
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7.1
- noun
- /staɪ/
- US
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- Within the hour, my sty and I had been given antibiotics, avoided being lanced by a doctor wearing bright blue Crocs, and I was on my way out the door.
Excuse the no makeup look, your girl has a sty on her eye and I'm trying to hide and recover from it.
- Excuse the no makeup look, your girl has a sty on her eye and I'm trying to hide and recover from it.
Examples
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Excuse the no makeup look, your girl has a sty on her eye and I'm trying to hide and recover from it.
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I've got a sty in my right eye, and when I talked to my doctor about it, she said it's no big deal and can be treated at home with a hot compress 3-6 times per day.
Blog text (18) -
Maybe it's a sty in your eye!
Fiction book (1998) -
You've not got a sty or anything?
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When I was in Colorado, I found myself with a good old-fashioned sty in my eye.
Blog text (23) -
I woke up with a painful sty on my eyelid that made it hard to open my eye.
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After noticing the redness and swelling, I realized I had developed a sty that needed attention.
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Using warm compresses helped soothe the sty on my eye and speed up the healing process.
Synonyms
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2.3
A sickness in the eye that makes it red and painful
A small painful swelling on the edge of the eyelid caused by an infected oil gland
A small painful lump on the edge of the eyelid caused by germs in an oil gland
Idioms
- Archaic
A small action that does almost nothing to change a big problem
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sty comes from an old English word for a 'swelling' or 'sore' on the eyelid, so a sty is a small, painful bump caused by an infection at the edge of the eye.