varmint
/ˈvɑːmɪnt//ˈvɑɹmɪnt/
varmint noun: a pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
Noun
varmint (plural varmints)
- A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
- Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb’s refuse.
The varmints had a lean time of it,[…]1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
- Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb’s refuse.
- An obnoxious person or troublemaker.
- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 36-37
varmint meaning in Urdu
varmint in Urdu
- موذی, ضرر رساں جانور
Forms of varmint
| plural | varmints |
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Origin of varmint
Dialectal form of vermin, derived from Latin vermis (“worm”), c. 1530–1540s. Perhaps influenced by Latin vargus (“bandit, outlaw, scoundrel”), though the pronunciation in /ɑː(ɹ)/ is more likely due to the same lowering of /ɛr/ > /ar/ found in carve < Middle English kerven and starve < Middle English sterven. The final syllable is probably altered after -ment; compare parchment < Middle English parchemyn.
Words formed from varmint
Questions about varmint
- What does varmint mean?
- Varmint means a pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
- What is varmint in Urdu?
- Varmint in Urdu is موذی, ضرر رساں جانور. See Varmint meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is varmint?
- Varmint is a noun.
- How do you pronounce varmint?
- Varmint is pronounced /ˈvɑːmɪnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of varmint?
- The plural of varmint is varmints.
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