The definition of a pest is an annoying person or thing.
(noun)An example of a pest is a bug that keeps buzzing in someone's ear.
See pest in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: Fr peste < L pestis, plague
See pest in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: French peste, pestilence
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Latin pestis
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