Usually means: Source of persistent annoyance or distress.
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(Note: See baned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cause of misery or death.
noun:  (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
noun:  (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
noun:  (obsolete) Destruction; death.
noun:  A disease of sheep.
verb:  (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
verb:  (transitive) To be the bane of.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) Bone.
noun:  A surname.

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