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Related topics: Agriculture, Illness & disabilitysty /staɪ/ noun (plural sties) [countable] 1. TAa place where pigs are kept 猪圈，猪栏 SYN pigsty2. (also stye)MI an infected place on the edge of your eyelid, which becomes red and swollen 睑腺炎，麦粒肿Examples from the Corpussty• She penned them in a sty and gave them acorns to eat.• Twenty years cleaning up his sty and filling his trough and he's off.• The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty.• Not only are their sties roomy and warm, but they are allowed to forage around in a large orchard.• We all lived in this sty, just off Wimbledon Hill.Origin sty 1. Old English stig2. Old English stigend, from stigan “to rise”sty nounChinese place a kept Corpus where are pigs |