- pesthole
- noun Date: 1862 a place liable to epidemic disease
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
pesthole
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pesthole — [pest′hōl΄] n. [ PEST + HOLE] a place infested or likely to be infested with an epidemic disease … English World dictionary
pesthole — /pest hohl /, n. a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease. [1900 05; PEST + HOLE] * * * … Universalium
pesthole — noun A place where a pest (contagious disease) is present or likely … Wiktionary
pesthole — Synonyms and related words: Augean stables, ambulatory plague, black death, black plague, bubonic plague, cellulocutaneous plague, defervescing plague, dump, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, glandular plague, hemorrhagic plague, hole, hovel,… … Moby Thesaurus
pesthole — pest•hole [[t]ˈpɛstˌhoʊl[/t]] n. pat a place infested with or esp. liable to epidemic disease • Etymology: 1900–05 … From formal English to slang
pesthole — noun a breeding ground for epidemic disease • Hypernyms: ↑breeding ground * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a place subject or liable to epidemic disease * * * /pest hohl /, n. a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease. [1900 05; PEST… … Useful english dictionary
Pesthole of the Pacific — Panama City, Panama; Buenaventura, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecuador … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
pest — noun a) A plague, pestilence, epidemic Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone! b) An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature … Wiktionary
pesthouse — noun An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections See Also: pesthole … Wiktionary
black death — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, ambulatory plague, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard … Moby Thesaurus
