noun
- a pen or enclosure where pigs are kept
- a very dirty or messy place
Usage: informal
Examples
- The farmer cleaned out the pigsty every morning.
- Three pigs lived in the small pigsty behind the barn.
- His bedroom was such a pigsty that he couldn’t find his homework.
- After the party, the kitchen looked like a pigsty.
- She refused to live in that pigsty of an apartment.
- The old pigsty needed new fencing to keep the animals secure.