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vermin
c.1300, "noxious animals," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr.
vermin,
from V.L.
*verminum
"vermin," possibly including bothersome insects, collective noun formed from L.
vermis
"worm" (see
worm
). Extended to "low, obnoxious people" by 1562.
