sty — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.

   Synonyme

   pigpenpigsty

2. A messy, dirty or debauched place.

   Gebrauch

   • übertragen

   Synonyme

   hovelpigsty

   Beispiele

   To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

Verb

1. To place in, or as if in, a sty.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island

2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

Verb

1. To ascend, rise up, climb.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Verwandte Wörter

   stile

   Beispiele

   The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].

   From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.

   That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

Substantiv

1. A ladder.

   Gebrauch

   • britischer Gebrauch
   • dialectal

Substantiv

1. An inflammation of the eyelid.

Substantiv

1. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

   Synonyme

   styehordeolumeye infection

   Oberbegriffe

   infection

2. a pen for swine

   Synonyme

   pigstypigpen

   Oberbegriffe

   pen