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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

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

The village center was abandoned, the nearby river polluted, the forest cut down, the local school turned into a pigpen.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2021

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

From Washington Times Mar. 2, 2020

Harison was on his knees beside the empty pigpen.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The Point Prospect camp-ground south of Rose Hill was said to be swarming with soldiers who made forays on chicken coops, pigpens, and smokehouses where winter meat was hung.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt




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