Sty vs Paddock - What's the difference?
sty | paddock |
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
A ladder.
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
(archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
* Wycliffe
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
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(Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
(motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
English words suffixed with -ock
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As an adjective sty
is hundredth.As a noun paddock is
(archaic except in dialects) a frog or toad or paddock can be a small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.As a verb paddock is
to provide with a paddock to keep in, or place in, a paddock.sty
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(sties)- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigstyVerb
(en-verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stighVerb
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
* *Noun
(sties)Etymology 3
Probably a .Alternative forms
* styeNoun
(sties)paddock
English
(wikipedia paddock)Etymology 1
From (etyl) paddok, equivalent to .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks . (Exodus 8:2)
- The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
- Paddock calls (Macbeth 1.1.10)
Derived terms
* paddock pipe * paddock stone * paddock stoolEtymology 2
Alteration of (etyl) parrok, . Related to (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.