pigsty

/'pigstai/ Cách viết khác : (pigpen) /'pigpen/

Thân thiện

A farmer is cleaning out the pigsty.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A pen for swine: A small enclosure or building where pigs are kept.
   • (Figurative) A very dirty or untidy place: Used to describe a room, house, or area that is extremely messy and unclean.

Usage Examples

• Literal meaning:

  • The farmer cleaned out the pigsty every morning.
  • They kept three pigs in the old stone pigsty behind the barn.

• Figurative meaning:

  • His bedroom is a complete pigsty; there are clothes and dishes everywhere.
  • After the party, the kitchen looked like a pigsty.

Advanced Usage

• "to live in a pigsty": To reside in a place that is extremely dirty and disorderly.
  • I can't believe he can live in such a pigsty.

Variants and Related Words

• Pigpen (n): A direct synonym for a pigsty, both literal and figurative.
  • This room is an absolute pigpen.

Synonyms

• Hovel: A small, squalid, unpleasant dwelling.
• Mess: A dirty or untidy state of things or of a place.
• Dump: (Informal) An unpleasant or dreary place.

Idioms

• "This place is a pigsty": A common idiomatic expression to strongly state that a location is disgustingly messy.
  • Clean your room—this place is a pigsty!

Học thuật

Noun

1. a pen for swine

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sty
• pigpen