pigsty
English
Etymology
From pig + sty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪɡˌstaɪ̯/, [ˈpʰɪɡˌstaɪ̯]
- Hyphenation: pig‧sty
Noun
pigsty (plural pigsties)
- An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.
- Synonyms: hogpen, hogsty, pigpen, sty
- Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) hoghouse
The lower pasture also contains a pigsty.
- (colloquial) A dirty or very untidy place.
- Synonym: pigpen
This room is a pigsty. When are you going to clean it?
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20:"It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.
Translations
enclosure where pigs are kept
- Albanian: thark m, ahur derrash m, stallë derrash f
- Arabic: زَرِيبَةُ خَنَازِير f (zarībatu ḵanāzīr)
- Egyptian Arabic: زريبة خنازير f (zerībat xanazīr)
- Armenian: խոզանոց (hy) (xozanocʻ)
- Azerbaijani: donuz damı
- Basque: txerritegi, urdandegi
- Belarusian: свіна́рнік m (svinárnik), хлеў m (xljew)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: tangkal (bcl)
- Bulgarian: кочина (bg) f (kočina), свинарник m (svinarnik)
- Burmese: ဝက်ခြံ (my) (wakhkram)
- Catalan: cort de porcs f, porcatera (ca) f, porcellera (ca) f, soll (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 豬圈 / 猪圈 (zh) (zhūjuàn), 豬舍 / 猪舍 (zhūshè), 豬窩 / 猪窝 (zhūwō), 豬欄 / 猪栏 (zh) (zhūlán), 豬牢 / 猪牢, 猪窠 (zh) (zhūkē), 豬溷 / 猪溷 (zhūhùn), 溷 (zh) (hùn)
- Corsican: purcile (co), purcili (co) m
- Czech: chlívek m, vepřín (cs) m
- Dalmatian: cosuol m
- Danish: svinesti c
- Dutch: varkensstal (nl) m, zwijnenstal (nl) m
- Esperanto: porkejo (eo)
- Finnish: sikolätti (fi)
- French: porcherie (fr) f
- Galician: cortello (gl) m, subeiro m, chafuldra f, porcariza f
- Georgian: საღორე (saɣore)
- German: Saustall (de) m, Koben (de) m, Schweinestall (de) m
- Alemannic German: Süüwfigler
- Greek: χοιροστάσιο (el) n (choirostásio)
- Ancient Greek: συφεός m (supheós), χοιροτροφεῖον n (khoirotropheîon), χοιροκομεῖον n (khoirokomeîon)
- Hindi: सुरवाड़ी (hi) (survāṛī)
- Hungarian: disznóól (hu)
- Icelandic: svínastía (is) f
- Ingrian: pahna
- Irish: cró muc m, cró muice m
- Old Irish: muccḟoil f, foil f
- Italian: porcile (it) m
- Japanese: 豚舎 (ja) (とんしゃ, tonsha), 豚小屋 (ja) (ぶたごや, butagoya)
- Kabuverdianu: txikeru, txeker
- Lao: ຄອກໝູ (lo) (khǭk mū)
- Latin: hara f, suīle n
- Latvian: cūkkūts m
- Lithuanian: kiauli̇̀dė f
- Macedonian: сви́њарник m (svínjarnik), ко́чина f (kóčina)
- Manchu: ᡠᠨ (un)
- Māori: pākoro poaka, pahiko poaka, pākoro, pākorokoro, rāihe poaka
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: yòhjàm
- Norman: cotte à couochons f, porquerie f, hourdé m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svinesti m
- Old English: hlose
- Plautdietsch: Schwienhock n
- Polish: chlew (pl) m
- Portuguese: pocilga (pt) f, chiqueiro (pt) m
- Romanian: cocină (ro) f
- Romansh: uigl da portgs m
- Russian: свина́рник (ru) m (svinárnik), хлев (ru) m (xlev), свина́рня (ru) f (svinárnja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: свињац m
- Latin: svinjac (sh) m
- Slovak: chlievik m
- Slovene: svinjak (sl) m
- Spanish: pocilga (es) f, chiquero (es) m, cochiquera (es) f, cochitril (es) m, porqueriza (es) f, zahúrda f
- Swedish: svinstia (sv) c
- Tagalog: ulbo, banlat
- Thai: คอกหมู
- Tok Pisin: haus bilong pik, haus pik
- Turkish: domuz ahırı
- Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوزلق (doñuzluk)
- Udmurt: парсь гид (parś gid)
- Ukrainian: свина́рник m (svynárnyk), хлів (uk) m (xliv)
- Vietnamese: chuồng lợn
- Welsh: cwt moch m, twlc moch m
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dirty or very untidy place
- Armenian: խոզանոց (hy) (xozanocʻ)
- Bulgarian: бардак (bg) m (bardak), кочина (bg) f (kočina)
- Catalan: cort de porcs f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 豬圈 / 猪圈 (zh) (zhūjuàn), 豬窩 / 猪窝 (zhūwō)
- Czech: chlívek m
- Danish: svinesti c
- Dutch: zwijnenstal (nl) m
- Finnish: sikolätti (fi), läävä (fi)
- French: porcherie (fr) f, bordel (fr) m
- Galician: cortello (gl) m
- Georgian: საღორე (saɣore)
- German: Saustall (de) m
- Greek: χοιροστάσιο (el) n (choirostásio)
- Hungarian: disznóól (hu)
- Icelandic: svínastía (is) f
- Italian: porcile (it) m
- Japanese: 豚小屋 (ja) (ぶたごや, butagoya)
- Kabuverdianu: txikeru, txeker
- Latvian: cūkkūts m
- Lithuanian: kiauli̇̀dė f
- Macedonian: сви́њарник m (svínjarnik), ко́чина f (kóčina)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svinesti m
- Polish: chlew (pl) m
- Portuguese: pocilga (pt) f, chiqueiro (pt) m
- Romanian: cocină (ro) f
- Russian: свина́рник (ru) m (svinárnik), хлев (ru) m (xlev), барда́к (ru) m (bardák), срач (ru) m (srač)
- Serbo-Croatian: ćurak (sh)
- Cyrillic: свињац m
- Latin: svinjac (sh) m
- Spanish: pocilga (es) f, chiquero (es) m, cuchitril (es) m
- Turkish: ahır (tr)
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