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# pigsty

«pigsty» in Mova's school dictionary: **a pen or small building on a farm where pigs are kept** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pigsty, pigsties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pigsty is a pen or small building on a farm where pigs are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#m1)

2) (informal) A pigsty is a very dirty or untidy room or place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

On the farm in stories and science it is where pigs live; in everyday life parents say «Your room is a pigsty!» to mean it is a mess. Phrases: muck out the pigsty, like a pigsty.

### examples

- The pigs rolled in the mud in their pigsty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x1)
- The farmer cleaned out the pigsty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x2)
- «Your bedroom is a pigsty!» said Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x3)
- We visited the pigsty at the city farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x4)
- After the party, the kitchen looked like a pigsty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x5)
- The piglets slept in a corner of the pigsty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x6)
- "I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/#x7)

### note

Plural: pigsties (y changes to ies). Also called a «sty» or «pigpen» (USA). Saying someone's room is a pigsty is rude-ish but common family talk. Pigs actually like to keep their sleeping place clean.

### In the corpora

- [People call a messy room a pigsty, but pigs are among the cleanest and cleverest animals on the farm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pigsty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pigsty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.