pest
noun
[ pɛst ]
• a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc.
• "the tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly"
• an annoying person or thing; a nuisance.
• "he was a real pest"
Similar:
nuisance,
bother,
annoyance,
irritation,
irritant,
thorn in one's flesh/side,
vexation,
trial,
the bane of one's life,
menace,
curse,
problem,
trouble,
worry,
inconvenience,
bore,
gadfly,
pain,
pain in the neck,
aggravation,
headache,
cuss,
nyaff,
skelf,
nudnik,
pain in the butt,
nark,
blighter,
blister,
pain in the arse,
pain in the ass,
• bubonic plague.
Origin:
late 15th century (denoting the bubonic plague): from French peste or Latin pestis ‘plague’.
