sty

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sty /staɪ/ noun (plural sties) [countable]  1. TAa place where pigs are kept 猪圈，猪栏 SYN pigsty2. (also stye)MI an infected place on the edge of your eyelid, which becomes red and swollen 睑腺炎，麦粒肿

Examples from the Corpus

sty• She penned them in a sty and gave them acorns to eat.• Twenty years cleaning up his sty and filling his trough and he's off.• The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty.• Not only are their sties roomy and warm, but they are allowed to forage around in a large orchard.• We all lived in this sty, just off Wimbledon Hill.Origin sty 1. Old English stig2. Old English stigend, from stigan “to rise”

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sty /staɪ/ noun (plural sties) [countable]1. a place where pigs are kept
   SYN  pigsty
2. (also stye) an infected place on the edge of your eyelid, which becomes red and swollen

styBrE /staɪ/ 🔊NAmE /staɪ/ 🔊 noun (

plural

sties) = pigsty (also stye) (

plural

sties or

styes) an infection of the eyelid (= the skin above or below the eye) which makes it red and sore 麦粒肿；睑腺炎