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单词 swine sty
释义

swine styn.

Brit. /ˈswʌɪn stʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈswaɪn ˌstaɪ/
Forms:

α. see swine n. and sty n.3; also late Middle English syynstye (transmission error).

β. late Middle English swinysty, late Middle English swunystye, late Middle English swyne is sty, late Middle English swynysty, 1500s–1600s swines stie, 1500s–1600s swines stye, 1600s swines stigh, 1600s swines sty, 1700s– swine's sty.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: swine n., sty n.3
Etymology: In α. forms < swine n. + sty n.3 In β. forms < the genitive of swine n. + sty n.3 Compare pigsty n.Compare early modern Dutch swijnstije (late 16th cent. in Kiliaan (1588), who records it as an obsolete word), Old High German swīnstīga (Middle High German swīnstīge), Old Icelandic svínstí, Old Danish swīnæstī, swīnæstīgh (Danish svinesti), Old Swedish svīna stīghia, svīna stīa (Swedish svinstia).
Now historical.
A pigsty. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen
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hoghouse1350
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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
1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 60/2 Ther was made gret wast..and none housynge left stondynge..but zif it were a Shepecote or a Berne, or a Swynesty.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 59 Þai orden þat..all þe pryves & swynesties þeron be done away.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 83/2 To reuoke the king..from the swines-stie of vice to the statelie throne of vertue.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. xii. 16) Many such Edomites..now-adaies that prefer earth before heaven, a swine-sty before a sanctuary.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 13 There are waters..smelling as offensively as a swine-stie.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 182 She opened the swine-stye door And drave them out.
1982 J. V. McGee Thru Bible II. 352/2 Sex, liquor, drugs, filthy magazines, foul pictures, scandals, and riots reign. This nation is wallowing like a pig in a swine's sty.
2013 Agric. Hist. 87 435 Husbandry texts of the sixteenth century also describe closed swine sties with little light and stone floors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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