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pest

noun
/pɛst/UK

Etymology

In the 16th century in the sense of "pestilence" and specifically bubonic plague from Middle French peste (“pestilence”) (whence French peste). The other meanings are recorded soon after. Ultimately from Latin pestis.

  1. derived from pestis
  2. borrowed from peste — “pestilence”

Definitions

  1. A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.

  2. Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock

    Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.

  3. An annoying person, a nuisance.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.

    2. An invasive weed.

    3. One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the…

      One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

    4. The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the…

      The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.

      • On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.

    5. A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

The neighborhood

Derived

antipest, building and pest, chicken pest, empest, fowl pest, garden pest, impest, integrated pest management, nagana pest, nonpest, pest control, pest controller, pestful, pestify, pestlike, Pestminster, pestology, pestproof, pesty, serial pest, sex pest, tin pest

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA