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sty

noun
🔊/staɪ/
🔊/staɪ/
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  1. (plural sties)
    (also pigsty, North American English also pigpen)
    a small building or area where pigs are keptTopics Farmingc2
  2. (plural sties)
    (also pigsty, North American English also pigpen)
    [singular] (informal) a very dirty or untidy place肮脏的地方；猪窝般邋遢的地方
  3. (also stye)
    (plural sties, styes)
    an infection of the eyelid (= the skin above or below the eye) which makes it red and painful 麦粒肿；睑腺炎
    4. Word Originsense 1 Old English stī- (in stīfearh ‘sty pig’), probably identical with stig ‘hall’ (see steward), of Germanic origin.sense 2 early 17th cent.: from dialect styany, from styan (from Old English stīgend ‘riser’) + eye.