Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pen or an inclosure for hogs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pigsty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This man Abdoll wee found to bee a captiue or slaue, and sawe there his wife and children in very poore estate dwelling in a little cottage not so bigge as an hogsty: but by oure meanes he was made free and well rewarded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There's the old lumber-house -- there's the squatter's house -- there's where the cow keeps, and there's the hogsty, and half a dozen more, all of which you're quite welcome to.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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This man Abdoll wee found to bee a captiue or slaue, and sawe there his wife and children in very poore estate dwelling in a little cottage not so bigge as an hogsty: but by oure meanes he was made free and well rewarded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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