α. See hog n.1 and sty n.3
β. 1500s hogges sty, 1600s hogs stie, 1600s–1800s hogs sty, 1700s– hog's sty, 1700s– hogs' sty.
hogstyn.
/ˈhɒɡstʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡˌstaɪ/, /ˈhɑɡˌstaɪ/ 1. A pigsty.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen
sty?c1225
hoghouse1350
hog cote1414
swine sty1414
swine cote?c1430
swine housea1450
swine garth1459
swine house garth1466
hogsty?a1500
swine hulka1500
swine cruive1501
swine hull1566
cruivec1575
pigsty1580
swine's-steada1599
pigscote1599
hog pen1640
hoggery1642
crawl1661
swine crew1673
pigscot1679
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 803/44 Hoc porcatorium, a hogstye.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges sig. Iivv Yet Cornix agayne all courtynge I defy More clennes is kept within some hogges sty.
?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Ciiiv He wente & charged one of hys boyes, in an euenyng..to sette fyre in one of hys hogges sties.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 196 [Churches] turne[d] to barnes, stables, hogsties, and that which is worse, whore-sties.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xvii. 118 He replied, He would dwell not only there, but even in a Hog-stie.
1738 E. Purefoy Let. 4 Nov. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. iii. 52 I have heavy complaints abt the Baker's hogsty being not pitched.
1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. II. 41 Hog-sties were erected in the streets, sometimes even under the windows.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 137 Loud was the grumph and grumble from hog-stye.
1885 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 28 Oct. After covering lightly with earth, a light mulch of saturated litter from a hog sty was laid over the rows.
1940 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 53 492 She was 22 years old, and by no means ugly despite having been brought up in a hog-sty among the hogs.
1998 P. H. Sprinkle But Why Shoot Magistrate? xiv. 139 This case—or, rather, Charlie's handling of it—smelled worse than a hog sty in August.
2. In extended use: a small miserable dwelling; a very dirty or untidy room or building; = pigsty n. 2. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable
hell-holec1400
dogholec1450
cabin1594
sty1605
hole1616
hogsty1688
gourbi1738
rathole1770
pigsty1798
hell's kitchen1827
den1836
kennel1837
pigpen1872
rural slum1886
1688 Pleasures Matrimony iii. 70 Who would not rather chuse to live in a Palace of a Habitation, than in a Hog-stye of a House.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 52 Their Houses are little Hovels or Hogsties, the best of them scarce worthy the name of a Booth.
1838 C. Dickens Let. 21 Nov. in Lett. (1986) II. 120 I was right glad to escape out of such a hogsty & reach my lodging at half past six in the morning.
1891 Times 1 May 13 The state of the tenements in which single rooms are let at 3s. or 3s. 6d. a week. To speak of these ‘hog-sties’, with their filth, stenches, and chronic contagion, as simply insanitary would be absurd.
1941 C. A. Smart Wild Geese & how to Chase Them vii. 236 Their own homes and gardens good ones, while claiming that their employees want to and should live in hog-sties.
2000 D. Laskin Partisan iv. 108 The journal office was a mess (‘hogsty’ was Stafford's word for it).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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