Definitions
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- noun A place that is considered a breeding ground for epidemic disease.
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- noun A place where a
pest (contagious disease) is present or likely
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- noun a breeding ground for epidemic disease
Etymologies
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Examples
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The pesthole could be a proving ground, an opportunity to succeed gloriously, for all the world to see, where a less industrious, less manly, and less virtuous people had failed so ignominiously.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The pesthole could be a proving ground, an opportunity to succeed gloriously, for all the world to see, where a less industrious, less manly, and less virtuous people had failed so ignominiously.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Panama had been known as a pesthole since the earliest Spanish settlement.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Panama had been known as a pesthole since the earliest Spanish settlement.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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If he'd kept his big, nasty mouth shut, maybe people could have stood to have that pesthole around longer.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Russell in Failureland. 2010
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If he'd kept his big, nasty mouth shut, maybe people could have stood to have that pesthole around longer.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Russell in Failureland. 2010
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In fact, remind me again why we ever acquired this uncivilized pesthole of a state in the first place.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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In fact, remind me again why we ever acquired this uncivilized pesthole of a state in the first place.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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In fact, remind me again why we ever acquired this uncivilized pesthole of a state in the first place.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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In fact, remind me again why we ever acquired this uncivilized pesthole of a state in the first place.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
bilby commented on the word pesthole
"Next we can take a meat-cleaver to production work itself. No more war production, nuclear power, junk food, feminine hygiene deodorant -- and above all, no more auto industry to speak of. An occasional Stanley Steamer or Model T might be all right, but the auto-eroticism on which such pestholes as Detroit and Los Angeles depend is out of the question. Already, without even trying, we've virtually solved the energy crisis, the environmental crisis and assorted other insoluble social problems."
- Bob Black, The Abolition of Work, 1985.
October 24, 2011
sionnach commented on the word pesthole
Get yer commie mitts off my Kentucky Fried Chicken. And, last time I checked, Stanley Steamer was not a kind of car.
October 24, 2011
bilby commented on the word pesthole
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of steam-engine vehicles; it operated from 1902 to 1924. The cars made by the company were colloquially called Stanley Steamers, although several different models were produced.
- Wikipedia.
October 25, 2011