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Pester v. t. (past & past part. pestered; pres. part. pestering)

To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations. "We are pestered with mice and rats." "A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world."

To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. (Obs.) "All rivers and pools... pestered full with fishes."

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Etymology of 'Pester'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pester" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a white moon rising in the soul of me and I began to see clear. "Mary, Mother," I said, "God forbid the likes of me to be driving a bargain with yourself, but give me the one thing only and I'll never pester your ear again all the days of my life. Here in the dust I make a heap of all my sins and vanities,—the toss of my head and the tilt of my chin, the love-looks of the lads and the black hate of the girls, and I'll burn ...

— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... be able to read all my book—too much detail. Some of the chapters in the second volume are curious, I think. If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow-men, he ought to do what I am doing, pester them with letters. ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... was delivered by the Chapter contrary to the expressed wish of Louis XI., after he had killed a man who had insulted him. But in 1483 the element of romance appears again. A priest called Robert Clerot, with a sword beneath his cloak, was accustomed to pester with his attentions a pretty seamstress in the parish of St. Eloi. Her legitimate lover interfered, and, when the priest drew his sword, called in help and killed him with his dagger. Twice more in this period is a "couturiere" the heroine of the Fierte. In the very next year Denise de Gouy, ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... 'Obedience from such a motive would be positive wickedness, and certain to bring the punishment it deserves. Stand firm, and your mamma will soon relinquish her persecution; and the gentleman himself will cease to pester you with his addresses if he finds ...

— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte

... I be taken with a spasm of desire to play upon the recorders or the Bavarian single flute, and would pester my father ...

— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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