Pigsty vs. Sty — What's the Difference?

A usually covered enclosure for pigs.

A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs as livestock. It is sometimes referred to as a hog pen, hog parlor, pigpen, pig parlor, or pig-cote, although pig pen may refer to pens confining pigs that are kept as pets as well.

(Informal) A dirty or very untidy place.

A pigsty.

An enclosure where pigs are kept.

An inflamed sebaceous gland of an eyelid.

(slang) A dirty or very untidy place.

A pen or enclosure for swine.

A pigpen.

(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

A pen for swine

A ladder.

(disease) An inflammation of the eyelid.

To place in, or as if in, a sty

To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

(obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.

A pen or inclosure for swine.

A place of bestial debauchery.

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

To shut up in, or as in, a sty.

To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.

An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

A pen for swine