Pig-Pen

Hog's muddy home

Pig-Pen is the perpetually dirty boy in the comic strip *Peanuts*, surrounded by a cloud of dust wherever he goes.

The name has become shorthand for anyone conspicuously messy or unkempt: My roommate is a total Pig-Pen—there's stuff everywhere.

A pig pen (two words, lowercase) is simply an enclosure for pigs.

Peanuts

Charlie Brown

Lovable loser in comics

Schulz · comic strip · blanket · Linus · Lucy · Woodstock · Sunday funnies · cartoon · newspaper comics · good grief

enclosure

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Pig enclosure

  • swineDomestic porcine animals
  • livestockDomesticated farm animals
  • fenceBoundary structure between properties

mud · slop · trough · barnyard · farm · corral · sow · boar · manure · shelter

Categories
Opposites
CLEANLINESS (Peanuts character)

Pig-Penneat freak

One compulsively tidy

immaculate · spotless · germaphobe · pristine · well-groomed

physical enclosure type

Pig-Penpasture

Grazing ground for livestock

open range · open field · meadow · grazing land · paddock

MESSINESS (metaphorical use)

Pig-Penshowroom

Retail exhibition space

operating room · clean room · pristine environment · sterile environment · museum gallery

Family

pigpen, pigpens

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G