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pest – podictionary 222
June 28, 2010
The word pest arrived in English in the late 1400s in the saliva of a flea.
The flea we might now regard as a pest, and the rat upon which the flea rode we would also classify as a pest, but back then, the word pest didn't apply to either.
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