Crossword clues for vermin
vermin
- Scoundrels
- Mice and lice
- An irritating or obnoxious person
- Any of various small animals or insects that are pests
- E.g. cockroaches or rats
- Vile people
- Flies, mice, etc.
- Noxious ones
- With leading parts of Mike, Rick, Vyvyan and Neil plus Alexei Sayle, ultimately playing scumbags
- Harmful creatures
- Dirty rats?
- Household pests
- Pest control target
- Rodent pests
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vermin \Ver"min\, n. sing. & pl.; used chiefly as plural. [OE. vermine, F. vermine, from L. vermis a worm; cf. LL. vermen a worm, L. verminosus full of worms. See Vermicular, Worm.]
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An animal, in general. [Obs.]
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls.
--Acts x. 1 -
(Geneva Bible).
This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements.
--Holland.2. A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. ``Cruel hounds or some foul vermin.''
--Chaucer.Great injuries these vermin, mice and rats, do in the field.
--Mortimer.They disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest . . . is before them.
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Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
You are my prisoners, base vermin.
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "noxious animals," from Anglo-French and Old French vermin "moth, worm, mite," in plural "troublesome creatures" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *verminum "vermin," possibly including bothersome insects, collective noun formed from Latin vermis "worm" (see worm (n.)). Extended to "low, obnoxious people" by 1560s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable or uncountable English) Any one of various common types of small insects or animals which cause harm and annoyance. (from c. 1300) 2 (context countable or uncountable English) Animals that prey on game, such as foxes or weasels. 3 (context countable or uncountable English) obnoxious, or mean and offensive person or people. (from 1560s)
WordNet
n. an irritating or obnoxious person [syn: varmint]
any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats
Wikipedia
Vermin is the sixth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child, released on 14 October 2005.
Vermin ( colloquially varmint or varmit) are pests or nuisance animals, that spread diseases or destroy crops or livestock. Use of the term implies the need for extermination programs. Since the term is defined in relation to human activities, which species are included vary from area to area and person to person.
The term derives from the Latin vermis ( worm), and was originally used for the worm-like larvae of certain insects, many of which infest foodstuffs. The term varmint (and vermint) has been found in sources from c. 1530–1540s.
Vermin (Edward Whelan) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Vermin is a term for various animal species regarded as pests.
Vermin may also refer to:
- Vermin (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
- Vermin (album), album by Norwegian black metal group Old Man's Child
- Vermin, Nintendo Game & Watch game
- Vermin Club, British Conservative Party grassroots organisation of the 1940s
- Vermin Supreme (born 1961), American performance artist, anarchist and activist
- Joël Vermin (born 1992), Swiss ice hockey player
Usage examples of "vermin".
The ferrin battled fiercely, slaughtering the vermin by the thousands.
An infusion of the berries will relieve rheumatism, and a decoction of the leaves applied externally will destroy vermin in the heads of children.
Something kind of drastic happened, because the fish leaped right over me and bonked himself on this tree to get rid of the vermin.
He looked away from the projected image, to find himself the object of a glare from Brond Halorn that would doubtless have wondrously transformed him into some species of small, squeaking vermin, had she but the power.
Suddenly the despised vermin of Planet Macho were rebelling against their inferior status.
It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin.
But he took it mighty ill, being stubborn set to carry out his predetermined purpose, which was to follow up this victory of Crossby Outsikes by so many cruel murthers, rapes, and burnings, up and down the country side in Upper and Lower Tivarandardale and down by Onwardlithe and the southern seaboard, as should show those vermin he was their master whom they did require, and the scourge in your hand, O King, that must scourge them to the bare bone.
The hill-sides of Syria are riddled with holes, where miserable hermits, whose lives it had palsied, lived and died like the vermin they harbored.
Then there was dipping: thousands upon thousands of bleating, leaping creatures were hounded and yanked through a maze of runs, in and out of the phenyl dips which rid them of ticks, pests and vermin.
The rat catcher scooped up a bloodied bayonet which lay at the feet of a soldier now using his automatic rifle, and stumbled over the recumbent figures and dead vermin towards Whittaker, knowing it would be too dangerous to use the rifle in the confined space.
Mutimer bears, and will continue to bear, among certain sections of writing and speechifying vermin?
Galen was brushing down his navy superfine and his satin-striped waistcoat, which were now covered in white dust and dog hair and, no doubt, drool and droves of vermin.
And when they looked at the couch, it seemed to be made but of a little coarse straw full of dust and vermin, with the stems of boughs sticking up therethrough, for the cattle had eaten all the straw that was placed at the head and the foot.
We well-behaved slaves shrink from them, for the wages of freedom in this world are vermin and starvation.
Chinese Classics in gold upon them, and the large establishment, show that the family belongs to the upper class of Anamites, and leave one quite unprepared for the reeking, festering heap of garbage below the house, the foul, fetid air, and swarming vermin of the interior, and the unwashedness of the inmates.