sty

2 4.5

A small pen where pigs are kept

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Examples

Every morning, the pigs rush to their sty for feeding time.
This pig sty should be boarded up.

Starhops (1978)
This place was a pig sty last night.

Robot & Frank (2012)
- Why does it always look like a pig sty here?

Splash (1984)
This place is a sty.

Private Benjamin (1980)
We live in a sty.

Fiction book (2002)
My place is a pig sty.

The Wedding Ringer (2015)
It looks like a pig sty.

Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
I'm telling you, if it wasn't for her, this place would be like some kind of pig sty or something.

Blonde Ambition (2007)
They lived like pigs in a sty, all six of them crowded together into one tiny room.

Fiction book (2002)

pen

vssty

63 3.5

A small area for keeping animals like pigs or chickens

is specific to pigs rather than to animals in general

pigsty

vssty

16 2.1

A place where pigs live and sleep

is a small enclosed area focused on confinement rather than shelter

pigpen

vssty

4 2.1

A small fenced area where pigs live

is the same meaning but written in a different form

hogpen

vssty

2.5

A fenced area where pigs are kept

is the same meaning but expressed as another common form

9.9

A small action that does almost nothing to change a big problem

pig farm

6 1.4

piggery

1 7.5

sty

2 4.5

sty singular

sties plural

Sty for a pig pen comes from an old English word for a 'small house for animals', so a sty is the often muddy place where pigs live.