varmint

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var·mint

(vär′mĭnt)

n. Informal

One that is considered undesirable, obnoxious, or troublesome.

[Variant of vermin.]

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varmint

(ˈvɑːmɪnt)

informal an irritating or obnoxious person or animal

[C16: dialect variant of varmin vermin]

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var•mint

or var•ment

(ˈvɑr mənt)

n.

1. an undesirable, usu. predatory or verminous animal.

2. an obnoxious or annoying person.

[1530–40; variant of vermin]

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Noun	1.	varmint - an irritating or obnoxious person vermin bad person - a person who does harm to others
	2.	varmint - any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote varment animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Translations

varmint

[ˈvɑːmɪnt] N

1. (Hunting) → bicho m

2. → golfo m, bribón m

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varmint

(dial: esp US) → Schurke m, → Schurkin f, → Halunke m

(= animal) → Schädling m

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He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring.

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Would you have me suffer myself to be bullied all day by a varmint?"

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If I should go back to him, the cunning varmint would suspect something, and be dodging through the trees like a frightened deer."

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“Away with you, you varmint!” said Billy Kirby, plucking a bullpout from the meshes, and casting the animal back into the lake with contempt.

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See here, you young varmint, here's a shilling for you.

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"I've got the young varmint at last, have I," pants the farmer; "why, they've been a-skulking about my yard and stealing my fowls--that's where 'tis; and if I doan't have they flogged for it, every one on 'em, my name ain't Thompson."

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"Was ever such a sneaking varmint?" said one of the men; "to come on his business, and he clear out and leave us this yer way!"

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I niver cheat anybody as doesn't want to cheat me, Miss,--lors, I'm a honest chap, I am; only I must hev a bit o' sport, an' now I don't go wi' th' ferrets, I'n got no varmint to come over but them haggling women.

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It's that young varmint a-saying that the young lady kissed me."

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He said a horse that wasn't afraid of grizzlies fetched ten times as much as any other horse An' panthers!--all the old folks called 'em painters an' catamounts an' varmints. Yes, we'll go to Santa Rosa some time.

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"They scent plunder; and it would be as hard to drive a hound from his game, as to throw the varmints from its trail."

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In years past, if you didn't have a varmint rifle with a bull barrel, heavily glassed stock and a twitchy trigger, you did not belong to the club.