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Pigsty   /pˈɪgstˌaɪ/   Listen
Pigsty

noun
(pl. pigsties)
1.
A pen for swine.  Synonyms: pigpen, sty.






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"Pigsty" Quotes from Famous Books



... continued Old Amos, "one evenin' you leaned over the fence o' that theer pigsty an' stood a-lookin' at they ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol

... of course—not a pigsty for common sailors. Damn it, no; it would be a place ships' captains and first mates would come to; really good sort of ...
— Ghosts - A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts • Henrik Ibsen

... writing a mass! Thirty or forty will be nearer the price! Instead of living in a palace we shall take up our quarters in some poor little house over the sea, at Mergellina or Posilippo, with three rooms, a kitchen, and a pigsty at the back, and we shall eat macaroni and fried cuttle-fish every day, with an orange for dessert, and a drive in a curricolo on Sunday afternoons! How will that suit the delicate tastes of the ...
— Stradella • F(rancis) Marion Crawford

... I, 'I never have'; an' it was gospel truth I was speakin', too, for never before had I been to a place where the pigsty was in front. ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... of a girl brought up in a pigsty. Her mother was mistress of a little miners' hotel in Junction City, Allen says, and the girl boasts ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland


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