Vermin

Definitions: Vermin

Vermin

Noun

1. An irritating or obnoxious person.

2. Any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats.

Date "vermin" was first used: 13th century meaning "noxious animals". (references)

Etymology: Vermin \Ver"min\, noun. sing. plural; used chiefly as plural. [from Old English expression vermine, French vermine, from the Latin expression vermis worm; compare to late Latin vermen worm, from Latin expression verminosus full of worms. See Vermicular, Worm.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble. If you succeed in ridding yourself of them, you will be fairly successful, but otherwise death may come to you, or your relatives. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Medicine	Parasitic insects and worms, and depredating rodents. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Vermin

Synonym: varmint (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Vermin, varmint, pest.
Commonalty	Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.
Uncleanness	Riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, I don't fancy talking to vermin, but I'll talk to you just this once. (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady) If you do not shut up vermin you shall be my role model. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Now that we have the vermin out of the way. You're next Piccolo. (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) Vermin, that is not meant to be eaten! (Time Bandits; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Michael Palin)
Movie/TV Titles	Vermin (1998)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bibliography on vermin and noxious weeds in Victoria 1953-1974 (reference) The Experiments of Dr. Vermin (reference) Vermin and Other Survival Stories: Humanity as an Endangered Species (reference) Vermin Death (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Fuhrman the Vermin (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Vermin (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Frances Benjamin Johnston's cats, Herman and Vermin, seated on brick railing of New Orleans house, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Typical bedroom in Negro slum, Washington, D.C. A bed, one chair, and a possible bit of furniture for a bureau is usually the most such a bedroom can boast. Filth and vermin are as characteristic of this type of dwelling as the falling plaster shown here.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Arrowsmith	Adversity, like winger weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The pit of vermin of Benares is not less bewildering than the Pit of Lions of Babylon.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trifled as the flying beaks clove the air.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	They are so vast and magnificent that the latter seem to be only vermin which infest them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vermin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vermin" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	96	33,456

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "vermin": vermin-infested, vermin-killer, vermin-killing, vermin-poles, vermin-proof, vermin-ridden.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "vermin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		ongedierte. (various references)

Albanian		parazitë, llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, wash), kafshë të dëmshme, fundërri (canaille, deposition, dregs, feculence, grounds, Lees, ragtag, sediment). (various references)

Arabic		‏هوام حشرات طفيلية, ‏هامة (crown, vertex), ‏قمل (lice, moth), ‏طيور ضارة, ‏شخص مؤذ. (various references)

Bulgarian		сган (canaille, mob, riffraff), вредни насекоми, вредни животни, вредители, паразити, паплач (mob, rabble, riffraff). (various references)

Chinese		寄�"�虫 (Drone). (various references)

Czech		verbež, slota (pest), sebranka (herd, pack), pakáž, hmyz (bugs, creepy-crawly, insect), chamraï (varmint), banda (gang, herd, racket). (various references)

Danish		utøj. (various references)

Dutch		ongedierte. (various references)

Esperanto		fiinsektoj, fibestoj. (various references)

Farsi		حشرات موذی (Moth), جانورفت , جانوران موذی . (various references)

Finnish		syöpäläinen. (various references)

French		vermine. (various references)

German		Ungeziefer (pests). (various references)

Greek		βλαβερά ζώα. (various references)

Hebrew		שרצים (spawn), כ� ימ�" (aphid, insect, pest), כ� ים (lice). (various references)

Hungarian		féreg (canker, insect, maggot, worm), élõsdiek. (various references)

Italian		predatore (marauder, plunderer, plundering, predator, predatory), parassiti, malavita (pest, underworld), insetto parassita, insetto nocivo (pest), animale nocivo (animal pest, pest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		害鳥 (injurious bird). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		がいちょう (injurious bird, Tax Commission). (various references)

Manx		meeyllyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		erminvay

Portuguese		piolhos (lice, licence), parasitas (statics), insetos, insectos nocivos, bichos, bicharada, animais daninhos. (various references)

Romanian		verminã, paraziţi (interference, noise), pãsãri sau animale dãunãtoare. (various references)

Russian		вредитель (damage, pest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		štetočina (blighter, canker, locust, pest). (various references)

Spanish		insectos dañinos. (various references)

Swedish		skadedjur (animal pest, pest), ohyra. (various references)

Turkish		zararlı hayvan, parazit (atmospherics, cestode, cestoid, helminth, interference, noise, parasital, parasite, parasitic, parasitical, statics, strays, white noise), it kopuk, haşarat (insects, livestock). (various references)

Ukranian		паразити (cattle). (various references)

Vietnamese		sâu (profound, worm), bọn vô lại. (various references)

Welsh		pryf (insect, worm). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. uh. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vermis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vermin": verminous. (additional references)
	Words containing "vermin": overmine, overmined, overmines, overmining. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vermin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hermin, vami, varmin, varming, Veerman, vemin, Verdine, Verein, vergin, verim, verin, Verine, verm, verme, vermi, vermian, vermine, vermins, vermint, vermis, vermit, vermon, versin, virin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vermin" (pronounced ver"mi'n)
3	-m i' n	bogeymen, guardsmen, Jasmin, Jessamine.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-r-v"
	-1 letter: miner, riven, vimen.
	-2 letters: emir, mien, mine, mire, nevi, rein, rime, rive, vein, vier, vine.
	-3 letters: ern, ire, men, mir, nim, rei, rem, rev, rim, rin, vie, vim.
	-4 letters: em, en, er, in, me, mi, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: miniver, vermian.
	+2 letters: minivers, omnivore, overmine, removing, vomerine.
	+3 letters: liveryman, liverymen, marveling, misdriven, misgovern, normative, omnivores, overmined, overmines, revamping, venireman, veniremen, vermilion, verminous.
	+4 letters: animadvert, circumvent, ivermectin, margravine, marvelling, misgoverns, overcoming, overinform, overmining, overmixing, overtiming, ravishment, revanchism, revilement, ruminative, serviceman, servicemen, unimproved, vermilions, vermillion.
	+5 letters: adventurism, ambiversion, animadverts, argumentive, carminative, circumvents, deliveryman, deliverymen, divorcement, earthmoving, enumerative, environment, germinative, improvement, improvident, informative, ivermectins, maidservant, maneuvering, manoeuvring, margravines, misaverring, misgoverned, normatively, overemoting, overinforms, overmanning, overmelting, overmilking, overpumping, oversmoking, overwarming, ravishments, revanchisms, revilements, revisionism, terminative, timeserving, vermillions.
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