α. 1500s pigges stie, 1700s pig's-stye.
β. 1600s pigstie, 1600s– pigsty, 1600s– pigstye (now poetic and archaic), 1800s– pigste (English regional (Warwickshire)).
pigstyn.
/ˈpɪɡstʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ/ 1. A shed or other covered enclosure forming a shelter or pen for pigs.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > habitation of
pigsty1580
pig house1677
pigpen1803
pig bed1821
pig run1848
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen
sty?c1225
hoghouse1350
hog cote1414
swine sty1414
swine cote?c1430
swine housea1450
swine garth1459
swine house garth1466
hogsty?a1500
swine hulka1500
swine cruive1501
swine hull1566
cruivec1575
pigsty1580
swine's-steada1599
pigscote1599
hog pen1640
hoggery1642
crawl1661
swine crew1673
pigscot1679
1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 26 They hapt into a pigges stie, or a swines house, where they found sixe younge suckinge Pigges.
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. K4 Slight tis a prison, or a pigstie, ha!
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxiii. 72 There was no other Stable but what was at the end of our Kitchin, our Dining room, Bed-chamber, Pigsty, Pantry, and Buttery, being all one.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 169. ⁋1 What Wash is drank up in so many Hours in the Parlour and the Pigsty.
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 9 Turning down a narrow lane..in order to possess a pig's-stye, that we might take the gallows in flank.
1818 Times 24 July 4/4 (advt.) 2 bed-rooms over a dairy, a large cellar, wood-house, hen-house..cow-house, and pig-sty.
1853 T. I. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylvania 473 A pigstye in a city is per se a nuisance.
1913 J. London Valley of Moon 340 I immediately pulled down the cow barn, the pigsties, the chicken houses, everything.
1992 Nat. World Spring 30/3 The farm..consists of 12 acres of flower-filled hay meadows with a tiny cottage and its pigsties and barn nestling in the centre.
2. In extended use: a very dirty or untidy room or building.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable
hell-holec1400
dogholec1450
cabin1594
sty1605
hole1616
hogsty1688
gourbi1738
rathole1770
pigsty1798
hell's kitchen1827
den1836
kennel1837
pigpen1872
rural slum1886
1798 M. Weld No Union 13 Whose lofty castle is that, which yonder contemptuously frowns on the wretched hovel (or more appropriately, as Twiss called it, ‘a Pig-stye’).
1816 Times 17 May 2/3 Those stone, unwindowed, unchimnied, parish pigsties of cold, filth, and vermin, where lunacy now has its wretched abode.
1884 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 219 The poor in our great towns are condemned to live in pig-styes, and to pay excessive rents for this accommodation.
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 156 I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world.
1993 S. L. Delany et al. Having our Say v. xvii. 114 My locker was perfectly clean and neat... The other girls' lockers were pigsties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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