Sty

Quick meaning: Sty is a noun meaning A pen or enclosure for swine.

Meaning

A pen or enclosure for swine.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
2. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a sty.
3. (transitive) To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
4. (British, dialectal) A ladder.
5. (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.
6. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.

Example Sentences

To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island

Word Forms

• stye
• stying

Synonyms for sty

Depending on context, synonyms include pigpen, pigsty, hovel, stye, hordeolum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pigsty, pigpen, stye, hordeolum, piggery, pen.

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