pigsty
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pig·sty /ˈpɪɡstaɪ/ noun (plural pigsties) [countable] 1. TAa building where pigs are kept 猪圈，猪栏 SYN American English pigpen →5 see picture at 见图 home12 UNTIDY informal a very dirty or untidy place 非常肮脏[凌乱]的地方 SYN pigpen American English The house was a pigsty, as usual. 那房子和平时一样，脏得像个猪窝。
Examples from the Corpus
pigsty• I don't know how you can stand living in a pigsty like this.• If she wants to sleep in a pigsty, let her sleep there.• This place is a pigsty! Clean it up.• This room's a pigsty.• They will search every farm, byre, barn, store, cowshed and pigsty until they reach the ten-mile ring.• She saw her father trudging back from the pigsty toward the house.• And the strangest thing, right in the middle of the pigsty, was a big brass bed.• I suggest you whitewash out the pigsties and the cowsheds.• Remember how they whitewashed the pigsties before they'd let their men sleep there?pig·sty nounChineseSyllable
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pigsty
pig‧sty /ˈpɪɡstaɪ/
noun (plural pigsties) [countable]
1. a building where pigs are kept
SYN pigpen American English
2. informal a very dirty or untidy place
SYN pigpen American English:
The house was a pigsty, as usual.
pig‧sty /ˈpɪɡstaɪ/
noun (plural pigsties) [countable]1. a building where pigs are kept
SYN pigpen American English
2. informal a very dirty or untidy place
SYN pigpen American English: