Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A shelter where pigs are kept.
- n. Slang A dirty or very untidy place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sty or pen for pigs; a pig-pen.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pigpen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pen for swine
Examples
“I think I see you — for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences — I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.”
“I think I see you -- for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences -- I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.”
“Of course, this doesn't mean you should heed their every command, but if they tell you to clean up the "pigsty" - i.e. your room, it wouldn't hurt.”
“Yes, happily, the pigsty was at the end of the wood-house, and could be reached under cover.”
“The Freaney family lived in a three-bedroom terrace house in Salop Street, Penarth, which Mr Rees described as a "pigsty".”
“Personally, and you can call me naively optimistic, but I'm disappointed he made it back into his "pigsty" of a constituency.”
“For the third time within a month, Stalybridge and Hyde MP and Cabinet Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, James Purnell has been yet again caught abusing the Parliamentary expenses by claiming £10,143 more for his rent on his London home which he left like a "pigsty".”
“These cottages are in themselves as ugly as possible, resembling a large kind of pigsty; but often, by dint of the verdure on their thatch and the shrubbery clustering about them, they look picturesque.”
“Ireland's bonds set for good run; country has left the 'pigsty”
“All the while, Candlestick Park, built in 1960 and dubbed a "pigsty" by DeBartolo in 1985, degraded.”
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 185 more...

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