sty

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
  2. A ladder. UK,dialectal
  3. An inflammation of the eyelid.
  4. A messy, dirty or debauched place. figuratively
    — To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
    Comus
动词 v.
  1. To place in, or as if in, a sty. transitive
    — and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island
  2. To ascend, rise up, climb. obsolete
    — The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
  3. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place. transitive

词形变化

sties plural stye alternative sties present,singular,third-person stying participle,present stied participle,past stied past stye alternative sties present,singular,third-person stying participle,present stied participle,past stied past stee alternative stie alternative stigh alternative stye alternative sties plural sties plural stye alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
hogsty steward styful styless stylike swinesty throw an ant into a sty

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sty, from Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds).
Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).
词源 2
From Middle English stien, stiȝen, stighen, from Old English stīgan (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-West Germanic *stīgan, from Proto-Germanic *stīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-.
Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Danish stige, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.
词源 3
From Middle English styanye, mistaken as "sty on eye" yet composed of Old English stīġend (“sty”, literally “riser”), agent noun from stīgan (“to rise”) + Middle English yë (“eye”).
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