Meaning & use
varmint
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(Informal, chiefly North American) A troublesome wild animal, or a mischievous or objectionable person.
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The farmer set traps to keep varmints out of the henhouse.
"That varmint stole my hat again!" the old man grumbled.
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"Varmint" is a dialectal alteration of "vermin," strongly associated with rural American English and Western films.
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