sty
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English sty, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stiją. 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)
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- Milton
- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
- Milton
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Verb
sty (third-person singular simple present st, present participle ies, simple past and past participle stied)
- To place in, or as if in, a sty
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act I, Scene II:
- and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o' the island
- and here you sty me
- To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
Etymology 2
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English stien, stiȝen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English stīġan (“to go; ascend, mount”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stīganą, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-. Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.
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Verb
sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)
- (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
- Spenser (1590)
- From this lower tract he dared to sty up to the clouds.
- Mountagu Diatribe (1621)
- Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.
- Benlowes (1652)
- That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
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Noun
sty (plural sties)
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Etymology 3
Probably a back-formation from styany, mistaken for "sty-on-eye" but correctly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English styany, composed of styan ("sty"; from <span class="deprecated" title="Template:etyl is no longer in use. See WT:ETYM.">(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English stīġende, present participle of stīgan (“to rise”)) + y (“eye”).
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Noun
sty (plural sties)
- (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English stiġ, stī, from Proto-Germanic *stiją.
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Pronunciation
Noun
sty (plural styes)
- A pigsty (pen or set of pens for pigs)
- (rare) Any other crude dwelling or abode.
Descendants
- English: sty
References
- “stī (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
Etymology 2
From Old English stīġ, from Proto-Germanic *stīgō.
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Noun
- A path, track or street.
- (figurative) One's chosen pathway or choices in life.
- (figurative, rare) A short narrative.
References
- “stī(e (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
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