PEST

Pest

A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns "; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality . In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity. In the past, the term might have been used for detrimental animals only, thus for example, causing confusion where the generic term 'pesticide' meant 'insecticide' to some people.

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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 uninterested women.
    Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!


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