pesthole

[ pest-hohl ]

noun
  1. a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.

Origin of pesthole

1
First recorded in 1900–05; pest + hole

Words Nearby pesthole

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How to use pesthole in a sentence

  • Three American doctors went down into that pesthole of a Cuban city to offer their lives for a theory.

    The Unspeakable Perk | Samuel Hopkins Adams