Sekirov Dictionary

sty

/staɪ/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3

noun4

A pen or enclosure for swine.
An inflammation of the eyelid.
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(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. — 1634
(dialect, UK) A ladder.

verb3

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To place in, or as if in, a sty.
- and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island — 1610
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
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(no longer used) To ascend, rise up, climb.
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...]. — 1590

forms

stied · stying · sties

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