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Dutch
Etymology
From pest (“pestilence”) + hekel (“dislike, hatred”); the former element is used as an intensifier, per the common Dutch practice of using diseases as intensifiers in compound words (compare kanker-).
Pronunciation
Noun
pesthekel m (uncountable)
- (colloquial) an intense hatred or dislike