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Definition of 'sty'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
( sties)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty
* (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigsty
Verb
( en-verb)
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
- (Shakespeare)
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .
Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stigh
Verb
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
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Noun
(sties)
A ladder.
Etymology 3
Probably a .
Alternative forms
* stye
Noun
(sties)
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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