pest
pronunciation
How to pronounce pest in British English:
UK [pest]
How to pronounce pest in American English:
US [pest]
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- Noun:
- a persistently annoying person
Word Origin
- pest (n.)
- 1550s (in imprecations, "a pest upon ____," etc.), "plague, pestilence," from Middle French peste (1530s), from Latin pestis "deadly contagious disease; a curse, bane," of uncertain origin. Meaning "noxious or troublesome person or thing" first recorded c. 1600.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Silly you the average garden pest is really a tasty treat .
- 2. Organic farms win at potato pest control
- 3. Insect predators living in the mixed species plantations reduce pest damage .
- 4. Because at least one kind of invasive shrimp is an even bigger pest when it has a parasite on board .
- 5. The word pest arrived in english in the late 1400s in the saliva of a flea .