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/ˈvɑːmɪnt/ · noun
A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops..
You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!
Use varmint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Varmint means A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops..
Common synonyms include vermin, varment.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!
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