Gest vs Pest - What's the difference?
gest | pest |
(obsolete) A gesture or action.
* , II.ix:
* , II.36:
(archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
(archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(archaic) bearing; deportment
* Spenser
(obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
(obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
(originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
An annoying person.
(British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
As nouns the difference between gest and pest
is that gest is (obsolete) a gesture or action or gest can be (obsolete) a stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest while pest is plague.gest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) geste.Noun
(en noun)- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes .
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes' and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the ' gests , or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was.
- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- (Mede)
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
Etymology 2
Compare gist a resting place.Noun
(en noun)- (Kersey)
- (Hanmer)
Anagrams
* ----pest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!