Definitions for sty

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sty sty

Spelling: [stahy]

IPA: /staɪ/

Sty is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in sty (sty).

Definitions for sty

noun

1. a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
2. any filthy place or abode.
3. a place of bestial debauchery.
4. a circumscribed abscess caused by bacterial infection of the glands on the edge of the eyelid; hordeolum.

verb (used with object)

1. to keep or lodge in or as if in a sty.

verb (used without object)

1. to live in or as if in a sty.

Origin of sty

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English *stī in stī-fearh sty-pig; probably identical with stig- in stigweard steward; cognate with Old Norse stī, Dutch st

Examples for sty

"This is what love can be these days, foul as two pigs in a sty," said the harbor.

In the village I have just come from the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.

And the girls heard the hungry grunting of a pig in its sty.

Here, nine out of every ten of the guarijos we've seen, live like hogs in a sty.

Do you know why you are fed so well while you stay in this sty?

I not know what pigs are till I see them in the sty at the mission.

Jack looked at a fat pig in the sty with the eye of an ogre.

There is a calf in the barn,” he said, laughing, “and plenty of little pigs in the sty.

For a while, I and my brother lived on in that sty and kept ourselves.

You're in Bermondsey, mister, an' if you tyke my advice you'll go 'ome an' sty 'ome.