Definitions for Pest

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Pest pest

Spelling: [pest]

IPA: /pɛst/

Pest is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Pest (epst).

Definitions for Pest

noun

1. an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
2. an insect or other small animal that harms or destroys garden plants, trees, etc.
3. a deadly epidemic disease, especially a plague; pestilence.
4. See under Budapest.
5. a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)

Origin of Pest

First recorded in 1545-55, pest is from the Latin word pestis plague

Examples for Pest

Thus he kept it up for years, and was a pest throughout the neighborhood.

With one swift ninja movement, Obama swatted the pest with ease, leaving it lifeless on the ground.

"Earworm" has been around for quite some time to refer to a pest that burrows into the ears of corn.

And then that pest of an office boy began shouting his name.

An exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do pest control on military bases.

He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.

Two methods of control have been developed to keep this pest under.

Scotts Miracle Gro made a pest resistant Kentucky bluegrass in 2011 using the same technology.

She is a demon now, and the pest of married women and their babies.'

To us they are as vermin, a pest upon the face of the earth.