Crossword clues for pest
pest
- Slug, e.g
- Obnoxious person
- Mosquito or fly
- Mole, to a suburbanite
- Exterminator's victim
- Dennis the Menace, to Mr. Wilson
- Bothersome type
- Yapping dog, e.g
- Vexatious sort
- Slug, to a gardener
- Sauce whose name is Italian for "pounded"
- Pain in the rear
- Pain in the butt
- Little brother, often
- Flea, e.g
- Flea or tick, to a dog
- Bug you want to swat
- Bothersome sort
- Bothersome kid
- Black Flag target
- Unwanted visitor
- Under-one's-skin type
- Telemarketer, to many
- Robocaller, e.g
- Roach or termite
- Recurring pain?
- Pantry ant, e.g
- Pain in the you-know-what, e.g
- Pain in the ass
- Nag, e.g
- Mouse, e.g
- Mosquito or mole, e.g
- Mole, to suburbanites
- Mixed-up PETS?
- Kid brother, stereotypically
- Kid brother, at times
- Irksome insect
- Insecticide victim
- Gnat, for example
- Fly, for one
- Cutworm, e.g
- Constant interrupter
- Bug spray target
- Bug bomb target
- Brat or bug, e.g
- Black Flag or d-CON target
- Bedbug, e.g
- Yappy dog, e.g
- Vexing one
- Vexatious one
- Unwelcome garden visitor
- Unrelenting annoyance
- Troublesome person
- Thing on your nerves
- Thing getting on one's nerves
- Termite or gnat
- Termite or cockroach, for example
- Telemarketer, perhaps
- Target of DDT
- Target of a homeowner's trap
- Sticky one
- Steady annoyance
- Starling, e.g
- Spammer, for one
- Space invader?
- Source of vexation
- Source of exasperation
- Significant nuisance
- Sheep ked, e.g
- Roach, spider, or termite, to a homeowner
- Roach or rat
- Real annoyance
- Persistent inconvenience
- Pain in the you-know-what
- Orkin agent's quarry
- One who annoys
- One told to leave, maybe
- One getting shooed
- Objectionable one
- Nettlesome one
- Mosquito, gnat or fly
- Mosquito, for one
- Mosquito, for example
- Mole or mouse
- Mole or mosquito
- Little sibling, perhaps
- Little sibling, often
- Little noodge
- Little brother, stereotypically
- Little brother or spammer, to some
- Kid sister to boy of 17
- Kibitzer, e.g
- It gets on one's nerves
- Irritating person who won't go away
- Irksome individual
- Irksome fellow
- Irksome creature
- Irking insect
- Infernal nuisance
- Importuner for one
- Housefly, for example
- Heckler, e.g
- Harmful insect
- Genuine nuisance
- Gardening column subject
- Garden headache
- Fruit fly or gnat
- Fly, perhaps
- Fly, for example
- Fly or gnat, often
- Flea or roach
- Crop-invading insect
- Crop-dusting target
- Crop threat
- Cockroach, termite, or rat
- Cockroach, e.g
- Child with a new drum
- Cat or goldfish
- Bugging bug
- Bug or brat
- Bug bomb victim
- Bothersome annoyance
- Boll weevil, to a cotton farmer
- Boll weevil, for one
- Apt rhyme of "infest"
- Apt rhyme for "infest"
- Aphid, e.g
- Aphid or boll weevil
- Ant, to a picnicker
- Ant or mosquito
- Ant at a picnic, e.g
- Ant e.g
- Annoying little thing
- Annoying bug or annoying person
- "Shoo!" addressee
- "Ramona the ___" (Beverly Cleary book)
- ___ control (Orkin's business)
- Nudnik
- Pain of a sort
- Nudge
- Annoyance, like a little brother or a gnat
- Weevil, for one
- Buzzy one
- Plague
- Irk-aholic?
- Bothersome person
- Nuisance
- Teaser
- Botherer
- Noodge or nudnik
- Buttinsky, e.g
- Hanger-on, maybe
- Adamant ant?
- Pain in the neck
- Termite, e.g.
- Fly, e.g.
- 43-Down, e.g.
- Dennis, to Mr. Wilson
- Mosquito, e.g.
- Cutworm, e.g.
- D-Con target
- Mole, to a gardener
- Ant, maybe
- Annoyer
- Persistent annoyer
- Irritant
- Little brother, maybe
- Exterminator's target
- Buttinsky, e.g.
- Slug, say
- Orkin victim
- Real pill
- Annoying type
- Mole, e.g.
- Starling, e.g.
- Younger brother, say
- Raid victim
- With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues?
- Irksome type
- Cockroach or termite
- Dennis the Menace, for one
- One who 26-Across
- Tick, e.g.
- Unwelcome guest
- 16-Across, e.g.
- Little brother, to an older sibling, say
- Slug, e.g.
- Trying type
- Nag, e.g.
- Garden interloper
- Real pain
- Fly in the face of someone?
- Obnoxious one
- Rat or roach
- Raid target
- A persistently annoying person
- Varmint
- Buttonholer
- Pain, so to speak
- Heckler or lapel grabber
- Midge or aphid
- Aphid, to a fruit tree
- Gnat or rat, e.g
- Gadfly, e.g
- Flea or fly
- Bothersome one
- No-see-um, e.g.
- Kibitzer, at times
- Lapel clutcher
- Aphid, for one
- Aphid, e.g.
- Locust, for one
- Thorn in one's side
- Bothersome individual
- Bane
- Nudnick
- Tiresome one
- Gnat, rat or brat
- DDT target
- Aphid, to a rose
- Gnat, e.g.
- Sheep ked, e.g.
- Lapel grabber
- Mosquito or gnat
- Gnat or brat, for example
- Annoying one
- Kid brother, perhaps
- Gnat, for one
- One to get rid of
- Midge or mosquito
- Exterminator's concern
- Gadfly or aphid
- Dennis, for one
- Capital half lost - that's a nuisance
- Old Bob in sulk becoming a nuisance
- Nuisance if clergyman loses grail regularly
- Fly, e.g
- Plump louse eats plant ends, causing blight
- Paddy harbours small annoyance
- Irritating one
- Half of capital being lost is a nuisance
- Disease with a high death rate
- Annoying person or bug
- Destructive insect
- ___ donna
- Kind of control
- Source of annoyance
- Mole, e.g
- Unwelcome one
- Sitter's challenge
- Annoying sort
- Royal pain
- Orkin target
- Arborist's concern
- Termite, e.g
- No-see-um, e.g
- Irritating sort
- Irksome sort
- Bothersome insect
- Aphid, to a gardener
- Unwelcome greenhouse guest
- Irksome person
- Gnat, e.g
- Exterminator's quarry
- Little annoyance
- Irksome one
- Fumigation target
- Bothersome bug
- Annoying thing
- Mosquito, e.g
- ___ control (exterminator's concern)
- Troublesome insect
- Tick, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]
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A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.
--Cowper. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. ``A pest and public enemy.''
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s (in imprecations, "a pest upon ____," etc.), "plague, pestilence," from Middle French peste (1530s), from Latin pestis "deadly contagious disease; a curse, bane," of uncertain origin. Meaning "noxious or troublesome person or thing" first recorded c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context originally English) A plague, pestilence, epidemic 2 An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature. 3 An annoying person. 4 (context British slang English) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
WordNet
Wikipedia
PEST may refer to:
- PEST analysis, framework used in strategic management
- PEST sequence, is a peptide sequence in proteins
- Specialized Unit for Special Tactics , special forces unit of the Slovenian Military Police
A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture or livestock production)"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality (specifically: plague). In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity.
Pest are a band from South London, formerly signed to Ninja Tune, writing and playing music that mixes elements of funk, electronica, jazz and breakbeat. The band consists of Ben Mallott ( DJ and keyboards), Matt Chandler ( guitar), Tom Marriott ( trombone), Wayne Urquhart ( cello) and Vesa Haapanen ( drums).
Former band member Adrian Josey (aka Pasta/Saffrolla) worked as DJ, co-producer, lyricist and vocalist on albums Necessary Measures, All Out Fall Out, early singles, and distribution of the band's pre-signed white labels.
A pest in ice hockey is a player who attempts to antagonize opponent players either by physical play or verbal incitation. Pests employ legal, illegal, or borderline tactics to accomplish their goals. Some common tactics include trash talk or slashing and hooking while referees are not looking. They may employ the tactic of goading opponents into a fight but then backing off in order to draw a penalty against them. Some pests may not only use these tactics against opposing skaters, but opposing goaltenders as well. Pest and agitator are sometimes used synonymously, as both are usually characterized by short bursts of intensity and speed with the intention of creating havoc. The pest characterization has been used derogatorily, as a player who incites anger in the opposition but is unwilling to directly confront the result of their actions by engaging in fighting, as would an enforcer. George McPhee, former general manager of the Washington Capitals, said, "Pests are really the guys who have no courage. They start stuff and don't back it up."
Thomas Kronenes, best known by the stage name Pest (Norwegian for "pestilence" or "plague", born September 16, 1975), is a Norwegian black metal vocalist, mainly known for his work in the band Gorgoroth.
Usage examples of "pest".
He had drunk the best part of a bottle of arrack, had woken in the night with gripes in the belly, and then slept unevenly until dawn when someone had scratched at his door and Torrance had shouted at, the pest to go away, after which he had at last fallen into a deeper sleep.
I made a real pest out of myself back on the beach the other day and you were nice to let me off the hook with all those bicoastal excuses.
In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.
At any rate, there was no sluglike pest hanging from its belly, though Jameson thought he detected an old cicatrix where a tiny bloodsucking head might once have been embedded.
Botschaft, dass die Natur laengst unsrer muede worden, Die dort mit Fluessen Feuers schreckt, Das paradiesische Gefilde ueberdeckt, Und dort, geschaeftig im Ermorden, Der aufgebotnen Pest Die giftgen Schwingen schuetteln laesst.
They insist on making pests of themselves by visiting raids on Gyer, while my people retaliate in kind, regardless of my efforts to stop them.
And the baronet proceeded to eulogize his own good-nature, by which it is just necessary to remark that one miscreant had been saved for a few years from transportation, in order to rob and murder ad libitum, and, having fulfilled the office of a common pest, to suffer on the gallows at last.
Clarendon and his new home near old Goat Hill, sketches of his career and manifold honours, and popular accounts of his salient scientific discoveries were all presented in the principal California dailies, till the public soon felt a sort of reflected pride in the man whose studies of pyemia in India, of the pest in China, and of every sort of kindred disorder elsewhere would soon enrich the world of medicine with an antitoxin of revolutionary importance - a basic antitoxin combating the whole febrile principle at its very source, and ensuring the ultimate conquest and extirpation of fever in all its diverse forms.
In a Pest tearoom near the quai, the Allamvedelmi Hatosag, the Hungarian secret police, had handed him on to the local KGB rezidentura, which had provided him with an Australian passport and had put him aboard an Aeroflot flight bound for Moscow.
In the public culture of the stars the salamandrian pest was completely ignored.
By diversifying your crops, you make it harder for the pests to find the vegies of their choice, and if they do find one plant, they might still find it hard to get onto the next one.
On Ftiday nights he was emitted from the household like a wandering cat, headed for a tavern and, later, the Hotel Delaney over on Western Avenue, only a little better than a flop, with its old woolen carpets wom to the backing over the stairs, and the naphtha scent of some chemical agent used to control the infestation of pests.
Draka agronomy and biology are excellent, and continual research is done by the League and the Institutes on the development of improved strains of plant and animal, and on pest control.
A dozen autograph pests were poking pencils and books toward Balza, but she quieted them with her most seductive smile and approached the microphone.
Rhoslyn had been planning to suggest that Aurelia bespell Tolliver, thinking it would serve that pest Elizabeth right to have one of her servants kill another.