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pigpen

[pig-pen] / ˈpɪgˌpɛn /
NOUN
pigsty
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NOUN
a messy place
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NOUN
messy place
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STRONG


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A video reposted on social media by China News Service, a state-run news agency, pointed out the low rate and showed a pigpen in China with an air conditioner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The pigpen squall of guitars makes a gloriously greasy mess, but Slocum’s vocals cut through like vinegar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

There’s even a pen for the pigs her son is raising for 4-H, a rare pigpen with a riverfront view.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

Still another gave them a pigpen to set up on their land.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens.

From Time Magazine Archive

More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows.

From Time Magazine Archive

At dusk, he tried another farmhouse, newly built of cinder blocks and surrounded by pigpens.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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