pest in English dictionary

  • pest

    Meanings and definitions of "pest"

    • (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
    • An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
    • An annoying person.
    • (UK, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.
    • noun
      (originally)
      A plague, pestilence, epidemic
    • noun
      An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
    • noun
      An invasive weed
    • noun
      An annoying person.
    • noun
      (Britain, slang)
      Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
    • Any organism that damages crops, reduces the fertility of land or injures or irritates livestock or people.
    • jinx (lit: god of pestilence)
    • A persistently annoying person.
    • nudnik (nudnick)
    • plague
    • annoying creature
    • annoying person
    • noun
      any epidemic disease with a high death rate
    • 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"
    • noun
      a persistently annoying person
    • 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

    Synonyms of "pest" in English dictionary

    animal, creature, blighter are the top synonyms of "pest" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of pest

    • pest ( plural  pests)
    • pest (plural pests)
  • Pest

    Meanings and definitions of "pest"

    • Pest, Hungary

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