Pest

Noun

 * 1)  A plague, pestilence, epidemic
 * 2) An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
 * 3) An annoying person.
 * 4)  Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.

Thesaurus
nuisance, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, persecution, persecutor, pester, pesterer, pesthole, pestilence, pill, plague, plague spot, plaguer, pneumonic plague, premonitory plague, problem, proser, rot, running sore, rust, sadist, scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, smut, tease, teaser, thorn, torment, tormentor, trial, trouble, tuberculosis, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness, visitation, wet blanket, white plague, woe, worm, worriment, worry, affliction, aggravation, ambulatory plague, annoyance, annoyer, bad news, badgerer, bane, bedevilment, besetment, black death, black plague, blast, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bubonic plague, bugbear, bully, burden, buttonholer, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague, crashing bore, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague, destruction, devilment, difficulty, disease, dogging, downer, drag, drip, dry rot, dryasdust, dusty, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, exasperation, flat tire, frightful bore, fungus, gadfly, glandular plague, grievance, harasser, harassment, harm, harrier, harrying, headache, heckler, hemorrhagic plague, hounding, humdrum, infliction, irritant, larval plague, mildew, mold, molestation, moth, moth and rust, murrain, must, nag, nemesis, nudnik, nudzh,

Etymology
From peste (=modern French), from  pestis

Synonyms

 * (creature) bug

Related terms

 * pesthole
 * pesthouse
 * pesticidal, pesticide
 * pestiferous
 * pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Translations

 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: ,


 * French:
 * Walloon: pesse


 * Croatian:, štetnik
 * Danish: skadedyr
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: szkodnik
 * Volapük: minimil


 * Croatian: dosadnjaković, dosadnjak
 * Danish: plage, plageånd, pestilens


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: maanvaiva, kiusankappale, kiusanhenki

Anagrams

 * pets
 * sept, Sept.
 * step

Noun

 * 1) fist

Noun

 * 1)  plague
 * 2)  pestilence

Etymology
From peste:, from  pestis:.

Noun

 * 1) A plague, pest, pestilence.
 * 2) A specific bovine plague
 * 3) An obnoxious person

Derived terms

 * pestbacil
 * pestblaar
 * pestbuil
 * pestepidemie
 * pesten (verb)
 * pester
 * pesterij
 * pestgeval
 * pestgezwel
 * pesthaard
 * pesthol
 * pesthuis
 * pestkop
 * pestlijder
 * pestlucht
 * pestilent
 * pestvent
 * pestvogel
 * pestziek

Noun

 * 1)  fist

Etymology
From пѧсть:. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест:/pest:, Slovak päsť:, Russian пясть: and запястье:, dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник:, песник:, пестница:. Compare, Ancient Greek πυγμή:, Old High German fust: ( > German Faust:).

Derived terms

 * pésten

Noun

 * 1) A plague
 * 2) A pest; something deeply annoying

Related terms

 * pest och pina
 * välja mellan pest och kolera