pest English

Meaning pest meaning

What does pest mean?

Definitions in simple English

pest Noun

— A pest is an insect that spreads disease or bothers people in some way. We had to call pest control to get rid of this infestation in my house.

— A pest is an annoying, bothersome person. My little brother is so annoying, he's such a pest.

pest

— noun a persistently annoying person

— noun any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides

— noun (= pestis) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

— noun (= plague) any epidemic disease with a high death rate

Synonyms pest synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pest?

pest English » English

plague

pestilence

nuisance

vermin

epidemic

bother

trouble

pesterer

nudnik

gadfly

cuss

blighter

blight

annoyance

torment

pestis

irritant

insect

evil

dull person

disease

bore

Black Death

whip

virus

verm

vandal

troublesome person

tribulation

thing

scourge

plant disease

parasite

odious person

nagger

nag

murrain

moor

miasma

malady

loss

lash

jinx

insect enemy

injury

injurious insect

infestation

impose

illness

hoodoo

Topics pest topics

What do people use pest to talk about?

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Insect

• What words describe insects?
  borer carnivorous cosmopolitan crawling creeping diurnal dauber flying hopper hopping insectile larva larval nocturnal pest predacious predator pupa queen segmented stinging two-winged venomous winged wingless

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Angry

Annoyed

• What words refer to something that causes someone to feel annoyed?
  annoyance exasperation frustration irritation nuisance pain in the neck pain in the ass pain in the butt pest

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Mature in behavior

Immature in behavior

• What words refer to a bad child?
  brat nuisance pest bully

Examples pest examples

How do I use pest in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Get off me you little pest!

Movie subtitles

Why, you little pest.

More of a pest than the fly that plagued the cattle.

He's a pest.

You're a pest.

A regular pest he is too.

What a pest!

That's a job for the Division of Pest Control.

The worst pest-hole in the empire.

They're a pest, a plague.

I'll soon rid you of the pest.

Got to make a pest of myself, I'm afraid.

The caballeros avoid this place like the pest house.

I don't want to speak. He's a pest.

No, I'm the pest now.

You always were the pest, but now, I'm going to be. because I know you killed Gert and I know you killed George.

Nonsense. Since then he's inherited half of Buda and a large part of Pest.

If you're gonna turn out to be a pest, we can call it off.

Goodbye, Pest.

He'd think I was a pest.

You take that back, you dirty little pest! Hey, look at goon face!

I don't want to see that pest.

It's that pest of a miller's cat.

She was a pest.

You're a pest. And I'd like it if you never put your snout in my door again.

What a pest you are!

Not a pest.

You play in the out field pest. Way out!

I hate to be a pest, but what does the Chairman of the Board do?

Just wait till I get you, little pest.

Stop it, you pest!

She's always been a spiteful, little pest.

God, you're a pest.

News and current affairs

Dodgy politics usually means four things: first, cover up and avoid government transparency like the pest that it is for wayward politicians.

Overnight, Warangal was converted to a cotton-growing district based on non-renewable hybrids that require irrigation and are prone to pest attacks.

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations.

Several years ago in Delhi, I called a pest control firm to treat my apartment for termites.

But as my pest-control agent's answer illustrated, one man's poison can be another's assurance.