pest

pest
n
1. gadfly, buttonholer, Inf. pain, Sl. pain in the neck or rear, Sl. nudnik; nag, pesterer, annoyer, harasser, heckler, badgerer; tease, teaser, tormentor, persecutor, Sl. itch.
2. nuisance, bother, annoyance, vexation, Inf. headache, Sl. hassle; irritant, bur, thorn, thorn in the side or flesh, pea in the shoe; bore, crashing or frightful bore, proser, twaddler, dryasdust.
3. inconvenience, handicap; trouble, problem, difficulty, affliction; trial, tribulation, worry; load, burden, weight.
4. pestilence, scourge, blight; curse, bane, visitation; epidemic, pandemic, pandemia.

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