📚 Varmint, noun. 🔉 /ˈvɑːmɪnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • informal, dialect): A troublesome wild animal. ❗️ Examples: 1. The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed. 2. The biggest pests on the farm are the varmints - voles, gophers, wild turkey and quail. 3. It might have come in handy if we ever spotted the Eastern Screech-Owl that disturbed our already suspect outdoor slumber, but the voluble varmint was well-hidden. 4. A great deal of space is devoted to hunting small game, varmints and big game in the US and Africa. 5. It has taken a ton of small game and varmints with the kind of repeatable efficiency that a .22 rifleman would be happy to claim. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic