n. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
n. An annoying person.
n. Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
n. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Plague; pestilence; a deadly epidemic disease.
n. Any very noxious, mischievous, or destructive thing, or a mischievous, destructive, very annoying, or troublesome person.
n.Synonyms Infection.
n. Scourge, nuisance.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. 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
n. a persistently annoying person
n. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
n. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
Word Usage
"Officially known as the brown marmorated stink bug, the pest is native to Asia and was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1998, according to entomologists at Penn State University."