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Pest vs Prest - What's the difference?

pest | prest |

As nouns the difference between pest and prest

is that pest is a plague, pestilence, epidemic while prest is a payment of wages in advance.

As a verb prest is

past tense of press.

As an adjective prest is

ready; prompt; prepared.

pest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
    • Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

    Synonyms

    * (creature ) bug

    Related terms

    * pester * pesthole * pesthouse * pesticidal, pesticide * pestiferous * pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    prest

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (press)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author = , title = , year = 1850 , page = 80 , passage = And when loftier mansions prest /Lure of pleasure on their guest, }}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) prest

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A payment of wages in advance
  • A loan or advance (of money)
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.
  • A tax or duty
  • (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
  • (legal) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
    • (Cowell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To give as a loan; to lend.
  • * E. Hall
    • Sums of money prested out in loan.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
  • * R. of Gloucester
    • All prest to such battle he was.
  • (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
    • (Tusser)

    Anagrams

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