sty
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Is sty a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of sty?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.Examples: "To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty."Synonyms: hovel, pigstyfiguratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a sty.Examples: "and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island"transitive
2. (transitive) To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.transitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.Examples: "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."; "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."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (British, dialectal) A ladder.Britishdialectal
noun (English)
1. (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.
Definition source: Wiktionary