Varmint

Definition: Varmint

Varmint

Noun

1. An irritating or obnoxious person.

2. Any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g. coyote.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "varmint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Varmint

Animal

Vermin, varmint, pest.

To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

I'm no Doc, ya flea-bitten varmint! I'm Riff-Raff Sam, the riffiest riff that ever riffed a raft (Sahara Hare; writing credit: Warren Foster)

The Varmint (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Varmint Hunter's Odyssey (reference)

• All About Varmint Hunting (reference)

• Monarch Illustrated Guide to Varmint Hunting (reference)

• The Small-Game and Varmint Hunter's Bible (reference)

• The Ultimate Guide to Small Game and Varmint Hunting (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Varmint Masters Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

High Tech

• Opening Weekend Varmint Hunter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "varmint": the varmint ♦ varmint for people. Additional references.

Albanian

shejtan (brat, devil, elfin, impish, mischievous, monkey, puckish, scallywag, scampish, sea cock, villain), qerrata (mischievous, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, son of a gun, wretch), kopuk (bad character, blackguard, cad, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, villain). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏سافل (black sheep, dirty, immoral, low, mean, pedestrian, raffish), ‏شخص حقير عادة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

безобразник (bastard), пакостник (imp, mischievous, monkey, naughty, rascal, rogue, sod). (various references)

Czech

neřád (brat, nuisance), chamraï (vermin). (various references)

French

vaurien, gredin, fripon, coquin. (various references)

German

Schädling (pest, vermin), Racker (jackanapes, mischief, rascal, scamp, varmints). (various references)

Hungarian

kullancs (barnacle, tick), csõcselék (canaille, hoi polloi, mob, populace, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff). (various references)

Manx

shynnagh (fox). (various references)

Pig Latin

armintvay.(various references)

Russian 

шалун (imp, naughty child, naughty kid, pickle, skylarker, varmint for people), шалопай (happy go lucky, sad dog, scapegrace, varmint for people). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvratna osoba (creep, sickener, stinker), odvratna životinja. (various references)

Spanish

bribón (dog, knave, rascal, scoundrel, villain, wily). (various references)

Swedish

rackare (blighter, cheat, crook, rascal, rogue, scallywag, scamp, scoundrel, villain), odåga (deadbeat, god-for-nothing, loon, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-well, waster, wastrel). (various references)

Turkish

zararlı böcek (insect pest), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, yob), itoğluit (dirty dog), hergele. (various references)

Ukrainian

шалапут (featherbrain, scapegrace), шибеник (brat, elfin, hanger, puck, villain, wag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ác hiểm sâu mọt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "varmint": varmints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Varmint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarmiento, Sarmineto, varmin, varming, varmit, vermint, vermit, Vraimont, warmint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: martin.

-2 letters: inarm, invar, matin, mavin, ravin, riant, train.

-3 letters: airn, airt, amin, amir, anti, main, mair, mart, mina, mint, rain, rami, rani, rant, tain, tarn, tram, trim, vain, vair, vina, vita.

-4 letters: aim, ain, air, ait, ami, ani, ant, arm, art, man, mar, mat, mir, nam, nim, nit, ram, ran, rat, ria, rim.

+1 letter: varmints.

+2 letters: normative.

+3 letters: animadvert, intravitam, provitamin, ravishment, ruminative.

+4 letters: adventurism, animadverts, argumentive, carminative, earthmoving, enumerative, germinative, informative, maidservant, normatively, provitamins, ravishments, terminative, voluntarism.

+5 letters: adventurisms, aggrievement, animadverted, carminatives, conservatism, earthmovings, fermentative, maidservants, malversation, misadventure, nonnormative, overdominant, overmatching, remotivating, remotivation, remunerative, ruminatively, transmissive, transvestism, ventromedial, voluntarisms, voluntaryism.