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PEST
pest
(noun) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; “he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests”; “many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides”
pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly
(noun) a persistently annoying person
plague, pestilence, pest
(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate
plague, pestilence, pest, pestis
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Pest
(historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Coordinate terms: Buda, Ă“buda
The corresponding part of the current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
Coordinate term: Buda
Anagrams
• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
Etymology
Noun
pest (plural pests)
(originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
An annoying person, a nuisance.
An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
An invasive weed.
Synonyms
• (creature): bug
Anagrams
• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
Source: Wiktionary
Pest, n. Etym: [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]
1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.
2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. "A pest and public enemy." South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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