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pigstye

pigstye is the archaic form of pigsty.

Meaning of pigsty

Noun

pigsty (plural pigsties)

  1. An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.
    • The lower pasture also contains a pigsty.
    Synonyms:
    hogpen, hogsty, pigpen, sty
  2. (colloquial) A dirty or very untidy place.
    • This room is a pigsty. When are you going to clean it?
    Synonyms:
    pigpen

Forms of pigstye

pluralpigstyes

Origin of pigstye

From pig + stye.

Questions about pigstye

What is pigstye the archaic form of?
Pigstye is the archaic form of pigsty.

Words near pigstye in the dictionary

  1. pigstickings
  2. pigsticks
  3. pigsties
  4. pigstuck
  5. pigsty
  6. pigstye
  7. pigstyes
  8. pigswash
  9. pigswill
  10. pigtail
  11. pigtail macaque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pigstye (page history and authors); pigsty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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