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pigsty

[pig-stahy] / ˈpɪgˌstaɪ /




NOUN
sty
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The barnyard setting of “Gunda” could hardly be more familiar, but in Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary, a pigsty is rendered an almost alien landscape.

From Washington Times

Dear Carolyn: For 55 years of marriage, our main arguments are around her tidiness — to a point I would call anal — and my sloppiness, which my wife would call "pigsty."

From Washington Post

“I remember the time it was like three or four in the morning and we were filming in the little shed up somewhere and we had a pigsty,” Seymour recalled.

From Fox News

“So many people have four or five roommates, and their place is a pigsty with everyone working from home,” Mr. Earnest said.

From New York Times

And although the figure has slowly decreased during the past decade, around one in10 sows is still found dead in the pigsty or in such a condition that she has to be put down.

From The Guardian