Pest

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›st

Origin

From Middle French peste (=modern French), from Latin pestis

Full definition of pest

Noun

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
3. An annoying person.
4. (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

Synonyms

• (creature) bug

Related terms

• pester
• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Anagrams

• pets
• sept, Sept.
• step