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Definition sty

Etymology 1

From Middle English sty, from Old English st?, sti? (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *stij?. Cognate with German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
2. (figuratively) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. To place in, or as if in, a sty
2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

Etymology 2

From Middle English stien, sti?en, from Old English st??an (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-Germanic *st?gan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?-. Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th-17th c.]

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A ladder.

Etymology 3

Probably a back-formation from styany, mistaken for "sty-on-eye" but correctly from Middle English styany, composed of styan ("sty"; from Old English st??ende, present participle of st?gan (“to rise”)) + y (“eye”).

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (medicine) An inflammation of the eyelid.

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