sty, pigsty, pigpen
(noun) a pen for swine
sty, stye, hordeolum, eye infection
(noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sty (plural sties)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
• (enclosure for swine): pigpen, pigsty
• (messy or dirty place): hovel, pigsty
sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)
To place in, or as if in, a sty
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)
(obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th-17th c.]
sty (plural sties)
(British, dialectal) A ladder.
sty (plural sties)
(disease) An inflammation of the eyelid.
• YTS
Source: Wiktionary
Sty, n.; pl. Sties (. [Written also stigh.] Etym: [AS. stigu, fr. stigan to rise; originally, probably, a place into which animals climbed or went up. *164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Steward.]
1. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.
Sty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stying.]
Definition: To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.
Sty, v. i. Etym: [OE. stien, sti, AS. stigan to rise; akin to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. stigan, G. steigen, Icel. stiga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. stigh to mount. Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine, Vestige.]
Definition: To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.] With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. Spenser.
Sty, n. Etym: [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. stigend (sc. eáge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p.p. of stigan to rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med.)
Definition: An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
