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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pest
Phonetic Transcription : pɛst



Definition of pest

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun person or thing that presents problem
Example sentences :
  • He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • She is a demon now, and the pest of married women and their babies.'
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Thus he kept it up for years, and was a pest throughout the neighborhood.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • And then that pest of an office boy began shouting his name.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • Two methods of control have been developed to keep this pest under.
  • Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
  • To us they are as vermin, a pest upon the face of the earth.
  • Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
  • The Pest Maiden arrives, and thrusts her arm in at his window.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • Why did she sigh so deeply when she said, 'I don't fancy we shall go to Pest'?
  • Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
  • But no, she did not betray herself; she merely said, "I don't fancy we shall go to Pest."
  • Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
  • Fig. 150 shows a view of a branch nearly covered with this pest.
  • Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett

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