Psst vs Pest - What's the difference?
psst | pest |
(onomatopoeia) Implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person.
(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 an interjection psst
is (onomatopoeia) implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person.As a noun pest is
plague.psst
English
Alternative forms
* pssstInterjection
(en-interj) (with more 's' as needed )- Psst , John, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got lots of candy stashed away.
pest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!