pest
意味
- 害虫
- 《話》やっかい者
- 《まれ》ペスト
例文
Get off me you little pest!
ベタベタするんじゃねえよっ!鬱陶しい!
Dammit, that pest Nagisa, she really went and snitched on me to the teachers.
くそー、渚のやつ、本当に先生にチクりやがった。
He's the pest that, on last month's class-help day, escaped leaving me with all the work.
先月の日直当番全部私に押し付けた形でエスケープした野郎だ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
In the 16th century in the sense of "pestilence" and specifically bubonic plague from Middle French peste (“pestilence”) (whence French peste). The other meanings are recorded soon after. Ultimately from Latin pestis.