Definitions for pests

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pests pest

Spelling: [pest]

IPA: /pɛst/

Pests is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in pests (epsst).

Definitions for pests

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 pests

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

Examples for pests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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