pesthole [pest-hohl] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of pesthole First recorded in 1900–05; pest + hole Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for pesthole Historical Examples of pesthole
Three American doctors went down into that pesthole of a Cuban city to offer their lives for a theory.
Samuel Hopkins Adams