sty
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Definition of sty
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
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noun
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
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(figuratively)A messy, dirty or debauched place.
“To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.”
- (British, dialectal)A ladder.
- An inflammation of the eyelid.
verb
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(transitive)To place in, or as if in, a sty.
“and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island”
- (transitive)To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
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(obsolete)To ascend, rise up, climb.
“The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].”
“From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.”
“Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.”
“That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English sty, from Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds). Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).
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