Pigsty
noun
A place where pigs live.
The farmer keeps his pigs in a small pigsty at the back of his house.
Often appears as...
- muddy pigsty
- small pigsty
noun
A very dirty, messy place.
His room is a complete pigsty, there are clothes and dishes everywhere.
Often appears as...
- room is a pigsty
- house is a pigsty
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A place where pigs live.
The farmer keeps his pigs in a small pigsty at the back of his house.
Often appears as...
- muddy pigsty
- small pigsty
noun
A very dirty, messy place.
His room is a complete pigsty, there are clothes and dishes everywhere.
Often appears as...
- room is a pigsty
- house is a pigsty
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pigsty refers to the specific enclosure for pigs, focus on animal living spaces.
I visited the farm and saw the pigsty where the pigs rolled in mud.
Pro Tip 2/3Farming Context
Use pigsty for topics related to farming and agriculture.
The old pigsty on the farm needs repairing.
Pro Tip 3/3Rural Imagery
The word pigsty evokes a rural, country feeling and setting.
Beyond the garden was a pigsty with several squealing piglets.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pigsty refers to the specific enclosure for pigs, focus on animal living spaces.
I visited the farm and saw the pigsty where the pigs rolled in mud.
Pro Tip 2/3Farming Context
Use pigsty for topics related to farming and agriculture.
The old pigsty on the farm needs repairing.
Pro Tip 3/3Rural Imagery
The word pigsty evokes a rural, country feeling and setting.
Beyond the garden was a pigsty with several squealing piglets.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pigsty refers to the specific enclosure for pigs, focus on animal living spaces.
I visited the farm and saw the pigsty where the pigs rolled in mud.
Pro Tip 2/3Farming Context
Use pigsty for topics related to farming and agriculture.
The old pigsty on the farm needs repairing.
Pro Tip 3/3Rural Imagery
The word pigsty evokes a rural, country feeling and setting.
Beyond the garden was a pigsty with several squealing piglets.
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How Climate Change...
open water and the air is the warmest it's been since the last ice age chicks wait for their parents and what used to be frozen ground but it's now as muddy as a pigsty
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How Climate Change...
open water and the air is the warmest it's been since the last ice age chicks wait for their parents and what used to be frozen ground but it's now as muddy as a pigsty
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Quote examples
Nina Bawden
British Writer
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
Quote examples
Nina Bawden
British Writer
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
Example 1 of 1
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