sty — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.

   Sinónimos

   pigpenpigsty

2. A messy, dirty or debauched place.

   Uso

   • figurado

   Sinónimos

   hovelpigsty

   Ejemplos

   To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Ejemplos

   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.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Verbo

1. To ascend, rise up, climb.

   Uso

   • en desuso

   Palabras relacionadas

   stile

   Ejemplos

   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.

   Más ejemplos (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.

Sustantivo

1. A ladder.

   Uso

   • uso británico
   • dialectal

Sustantivo

1. An inflammation of the eyelid.

Sustantivo

1. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

   Sinónimos

   styehordeolumeye infection

   Términos más generales

   infection

2. a pen for swine

   Sinónimos

   pigstypigpen

   Términos más generales

   pen