vermin

Various small animals, such as rats or cockroaches, that are destructive, annoying, or injurious to health.

Animals that prey on farm animals or game or that destroy crops.

People considered loathsome or repulsive.

To rid or clear of vermin.

Any noxious or troublesome animal: mostly used in a collective sense.

A worm; a reptile.

A noxious or disgusting insect, especially a parasite; particularly, a louse, a bedbug, or a flea, A mammal or bird injurious to game, aud mischievous or troublesome in game-preserves: chiefly an English usage. Such quadrupeds as badgers, otters, weasels, polecats, rats, and mice, and such birds as hawks and owls, are all called vermin.

Hence A contemptible or obnoxious person; a low or vile fellow; also, such persons collectively.

An animal, in general.

A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, worms, flies, lice, bugs, etc.