Category:Pest

Pest, n. Etym: [l. pestis: cf. F. peste.]

1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is Troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. "a Pest and public enemy." South.