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sty
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta?/
- Rhymes: -a?
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)
- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- (figuratively) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
Synonyms
- (enclosure for swine): pigpen, pigsty
- (messy or dirty place): hovel, pigsty
Translations
Verb
sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)
- To place in, or as if in, a sty
- 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.
Alternative forms
- stee, stie, stigh, stye
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 [...].
- From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.
- 1621, Richard Montague, Diatribae upon the first part of the late History of Tithes
- 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.
- 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice
- That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
Derived terms
- styan
- stirrup
Related terms
- stile
Translations
Noun
sty (plural sties)
- (Britain, dialectal) A ladder.
Translations
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”).
Alternative forms
- stye
Noun
sty (plural sties)
- (medicine) An inflammation of the eyelid.
Translations
Anagrams
- YTS
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English sti?, st?, from Proto-Germanic *stij?.
Alternative forms
- stye, sty?e
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti?/
Noun
sty (plural styes)
- A pigsty (pen or set of pens for pigs)
- (rare) Any other crude dwelling or abode.
Descendants
- English: sty
References
- “st?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
Etymology 2
From Old English st??, from Proto-Germanic *st?g?.
Alternative forms
- sti, stie, stye, stiyhe, sti?e, sti?he
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti?/
Noun
sty (plural styes or sti?en)
- A path, track or street.
- (figuratively) One's chosen pathway or choices in life.
- (figuratively, rare) A short narrative.
References
- “st?(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
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swy
English
Etymology
From German zwei. Doublet of tway.
Noun
swy (plural swies)
- (Australia, obsolete) A two-shilling coin.
- (Australia, games) Two-up. [From 1913.]
- 1951, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, 1957, Come In Spinner, page 306,
- “ […] Coupla bastards come the raw prawn over me on the last lap up from Melbourne and I done me last bob at Swy.”
- 1953, Tom Inglis Moore (editor), Australia Writes, page 3,
- “Then I come,” Kernow said, “and maybe I show you Old Australians how to play this — swy.”
- 1990, Frank J. Hardy, Retreat Australia fair and other Great Australian Legends, page 121,
- ‘ […] You?d swear a butterflied penny was spinning, especially in the night, playing under lights, but a good ringkeeper or any experienced swy player can pick a butterflied penny from the genuine spinning article.’
- 1951, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, 1957, Come In Spinner, page 306,
- (Australia, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
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