pigsty
(ˈpɪgstaɪ)
A sty or pen for pigs, including a shed or covered enclosure.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., {Cced}ahorda, a pigges stie, Hara. 1629 Massinger Picture iv. ii, 'Slight! 'tis a prison, or a pig-sty! 1710 Steele Tatler No. 169 ¶1 What Wash is drank up in so many Hours in the Parlour and the Pigsty. 1853 H. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylv. 473 A pigstye in a city is per se a nuisance. |
b. transf. Applied to a dwelling only fit for a pig; a miserable or dirty hovel.
| 1820 Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 311 All degrees of all nations begin with living in pigstyes. 1884 Labouchere in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 219 The poor in our great towns are condemned to live in pig-styes, and to pay excessive rents for this accommodation. |