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pigpen

[pig-pen] / ˈpɪgˌpɛn /
NOUN
pigsty
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NOUN
a messy place
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NOUN
messy place
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STRONG


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A video reposted on social media by China News Service, a state-run news agency, pointed out the low rate and showed a pigpen in China with an air conditioner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The pigpen squall of guitars makes a gloriously greasy mess, but Slocum’s vocals cut through like vinegar.

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2022

There’s even a pen for the pigs her son is raising for 4-H, a rare pigpen with a riverfront view.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2021

Still another gave them a pigpen to set up on their land.

From Washington Times Mar. 2, 2020

He had seen a big black bear standing beside the pigpen.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

When cultures subsist on food from individual cottages, it is not uncommon to find private pigpens.

From Time Magazine Archive

With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the smell struck him—something putrid, something so rotten that you would not even throw it into the pigpens back in his uncle’s village.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren




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