rats, mice, and other varmints
The sheriff in the movie gets revenge on the dirty varmint who killed his brother.
Recent Examples on the WebThat is if dogs or varmints haven’t gotten there first, tearing open the bags and leaving the contents strewn across people’s yards.—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024 But every spring, seeds of hope grow into flowers and vegetables of joy in a gardener’s head, replacing the weeds and assorted varmints that took up residence there in the previous season.—Bob Lorentson, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024 Heck, it’s even offered in most predator/varmint rigs.—Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2023 Not bad for a successful night of varmint hunting.—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022 Some sort of mutant varmint?—J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 29 Sep. 2020 How did a creature despised as a pest and a varmint, whose slaughter was once cheered and officially rewarded by California, become a darling and an icon?—Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 The boa uses its muscles to move its prey down the length of its body to the stomach, where the unlucky varmint is digested over the next four to six days.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022 The plot is a boilerplate revenge saga, with Love (Jonathan Majors, a true movie star) hunting the hide of the varmint Buck (Idris Elba), who killed his ma and pa, but the exhilaration is all in Samuel’s neo-exploitation execution.—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
variant of vermin (with regular late Middle English opening of tautosyllabic er to ar and parasitic t)
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