PIGSTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pigsty mean? 

• PIGSTY (noun)
  The noun PIGSTY has 1 sense:

1. a pen for swine

  Familiarity information: PIGSTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIGSTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pen for swine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pigpen; pigsty; sty

Hypernyms ("pigsty" is a kind of...):

pen (an enclosure for confining livestock)

 Context examples 

“Go home,” said the fish, “to your pigsty again.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Come in, come in!” said she; “is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Did not you ask it for anything?” said the wife, “we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Ah! said the fisherman, she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)