pesse, n.f., (bot.) mare’s tail.
pessimisme, n.m., pessimism.
pessimiste, n.m., pessimist.
peste, n.f., plague, pestilence, pest, torment; bore, nuisance; stench. La flatterie est la — des cours; flattery is the plague of courts. — soit du fou! plague on the fool! — soit de! out upon!
peste, adj., sly, arch.
peste! int., plague on it! the deuce! by Jove! hang it! bless me! indeed!
pester, v.n., to inveigh against, to bluster, to storm, to rave. Il peste contre ses juges; he rails, (swears) at his judges. — entre chair et cuir; to fret and fume in secret.
pestifère, adj., (l.u.) pestiferous, pestilential.
pestiféré, -e, n. and adj., person infected with the plague; plague-stricken.