Pest

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]
     1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the
        plague.
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              England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.


                                                    --Cowper.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pest
       n : a persistently annoying person [syn: {blighter}, {cuss}, {pesterer},
            {gadfly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "pest":
     affliction, aggravation, ambulatory plague, annoyance, annoyer,
     bad news, badgerer, bane, bedevilment, besetment, black death,
     black plague, blast, blight, bore, bother, botheration,
     bothersomeness, bubonic plague, bugbear, bully, burden,
     buttonholer, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague,
     crashing bore, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague,
     destruction, devilment, difficulty, disease, dogging, downer, drag,
     drip, dry rot, dryasdust, dusty, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic,
     evil, exasperation, flat tire, frightful bore, fungus, gadfly,
     glandular plague, grievance, harasser, harassment, harm, harrier,
     harrying, headache, heckler, hemorrhagic plague, hounding, humdrum,
     infliction, irritant, larval plague, mildew, mold, molestation,
     moth, moth and rust, murrain, must, nag, nemesis, nudnik, nudzh,
     nuisance, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, persecution, persecutor,
     pester, pesterer, pesthole, pestilence, pill, plague, plague spot,
     plaguer, pneumonic plague, premonitory plague, problem, proser,
     rot, running sore, rust, sadist, scourge, septicemic plague,
     siderating plague, smut, tease, teaser, thorn, torment, tormentor,
     trial, trouble, tuberculosis, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness,
     visitation, wet blanket, white plague, woe, worm, worriment,
     worry
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  PEST
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