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    [Noun]  | "sty" | \ ˈstī \


    1: pigpen


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English stig pen; pigpen; akin to Old Norse svīnsti pigpen;

    [Noun]  | "sty" | \ ˈstī \


    1: an inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid


    Origin: 1617 ;

     Short for obsolete English styan, from Middle English styanye eye with a sty, from Old English stīgend sty, from stīgan to go up, rise {mat|stair|};

    [Verb]  | "sty" 


    1: to lodge or keep in a sty

    2: to live in a sty


    Origin: before 12th century ;

    [Noun]  | "sty" 


    1: a dirty or messy place;


      * e.g., " ... That house is such a sty that I'm never setting foot in there again, she said with a shudder "



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