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Proof that pigs are tidier than their reputation; the mess is actually yours.
means A filthy, cluttered living space — originally the pen where pigs are kept, now mostly used to describe a messy room or house.
from A straightforward compound of 'pig' and 'sty,' with 'sty' coming from Old English 'stig,' meaning a pen or hall for animals (it's related to the 'sty' in 'stable,' sharing old Germanic roots about enclosures for keeping livestock). The literal farmyard pigpen sense came first; the figurative insult — calling someone's messy room a 'pigsty' — followed naturally once people wanted a vivid shorthand for squalor, borrowing the pig's unfair reputation for filth.
- myth busted
- pigs keep separate sleeping and toilet areas naturally
- real cause
- cramped pens force pigs into their own waste
- body language
- no sweat glands, so mud is their only AC