Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pen for pigs.
- noun Informal A dirty or very untidy place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pen for pigs; a pigsty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pen, or sty, for pigs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pigsty ; anenclosure where pigs are kept. - noun Something extremely
dirty ormessy . - noun cryptography the pigpen cipher
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pen for swine
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Examples
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Going around the barn to get to the pigpen is almost never a good idea, unless the pigpen is on the other side.
Edit to Done: Revision and the Art of Being Concise | Write to Done 2008
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Laura Bush's nickname, for someone very close to her husband, who does she call pigpen and why?
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I supposed that walking into the pigpen was his equivalent of walking the plank.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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Next to the pigpen is a long, planed board propped on makeshift trestles, and on the board is a cash register-the silver kind where the buttons pop into the window: 50¢, $1, No charge.
Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992
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If you would care to learn about the depraved human "pigpen" that regularly occurs in Nancy Pelosi's district in California, Google "Zombietime" and click on "Up Your Alley Fair" in the left column.
TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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Flag and ignore unless you just want to play in the pigpen with him.
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My mom once stole a sweet potato from her family's farm out of hunger, and her father locked her in the pigpen.
Grace Li: Dear Mrs. Obama Grace Li 2011
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My mom once stole a sweet potato from her family's farm out of hunger, and her father locked her in the pigpen.
Grace Li: Dear Mrs. Obama Grace Li 2011
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The cabin became a pigpen, and never once were the beds made or fresh pine boughs laid underneath.
In a Far Country 2010
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Either clean up the Kabul pigpen or bring the troops home.
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