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 →

2) (informal) A pigsty is a very dirty or untidy room or place. tree →

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 →
• The farmer cleaned out the pigsty. tree →
• «Your bedroom is a pigsty!» said Mum. tree →
• We visited the pigsty at the city farm. tree →
• After the party, the kitchen looked like a pigsty. tree →
• The piglets slept in a corner of the pigsty. tree →
• "I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pigsty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.