Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place that is considered a breeding ground for epidemic disease.
Wiktionary
- n. A place where a pest (contagious disease) is present or likely
WordNet 3.0
- n. a breeding ground for epidemic disease
Etymologies
- pest (“disease”) + hole (“miserable place”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Panama had been known as a pesthole since the earliest Spanish settlement.”
“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.”
“In fact, remind me again why we ever acquired this uncivilized pesthole of a state in the first place.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus.
“If he'd kept his big, nasty mouth shut, maybe people could have stood to have that pesthole around longer.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Russell in Failureland.
“CBS's stated reasons for choosing to shoot in this gorgeous pesthole was "the country's natural beauty and the high level of support from the government.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Not About Yve
“A Republican candidate who is so horrible that he has a low chance of winning but a high chance of either turning the U.S. into an authoritarian pesthole or the world into a cinder, or both, if he wins, or one who would be marginally endurable if he won but a higher chance of winning?”
“Leeches, oversized insects, and parasites thrived in the pesthole.”
“Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that you think that the Sudan is a festering pesthole of murderous barbarians, who are demanding to whip an innocent teacher because of a perverted distortion of their religion.”
“It was more than he would have expected of himself if someone had told him to stand in this pesthole street in the black of night for some unknown stretch of time.”
“This is my chance to reform this pesthole," he said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pesthole’.
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miserable circumstances
describing living arrangements from the less-than-stellar, to the sordid
burrow, garret, ghetto, hovel, hut, lean-to, cavern, shack, shanty, shed, slum, tenement and 59 more...
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Holes
judas, judas-hole, hole, creephole, pinhole, spy-eye, blowhole, breathing-hole, spiracle, touchhole, mouth, cakehole and 166 more...
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Bombardier Bilby Blows The Cellar
Words that sound much better than cellar door.
drumbledrane, foulmart, muzzle drift, slugplum, spinecabbage, chuffling tigers, bone-eating snot ..., greenchop, filth, gasometer, Piper Alpha, concussor and 49 more...
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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. Oct 24, 2011
sionnach Get yer commie mitts off my Kentucky Fried Chicken. And, last time I checked, Stanley Steamer was not a kind of car. Oct 24, 2011
bilby "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. Oct 24, 2011