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Unrelenting influence of children, affectedly proper and sweet
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pester
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "to clog, entangle, encumber," probably a shortening of Middle French empestrer "place in an embarrassing situation" (Modern French empêtrer , Walloon epasturer ), from Vulgar Latin *impastoriare "to hobble" (an animal), from Latin im- "in" + Medieval ...
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Pešter or Pešterska visoravan ( Serbian Cyrillic : Пештер, , or Пештерска висораван) is a karst plateau in southwestern Serbia , in the Raška ( Sandžak ) region. It lies at the altitude of 1150–1492 m, ( Kuljarski vrh ) at 1492 meters. The territory of ...
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v. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease , badger , bug , beleaguer ]
Wiktionary
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vb. (context transitive English) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
Usage examples of pester.
In a couple of hours everyone whom the surgeons had told of my obstinacy came pestering me.
The idea of Dazy Perrit being pestered by a blackmailer was about the same as Billy Sunday being pestered by an evangelist trying to convert him.
Wizard Giller conjured him up to frighten away a woman who was pestering him all the time.
I started a fire going, woke Kennie and we brewed tea and had a meal with large ants pestering us and a small goanna playing hide and seek in and out of a clump of spinifex.
The ambassadors from Nether have been pestering us for days, trying to gain audience with you.
Nobody is pestering the Ojibwa as they go on gathering wild rice the same as ever.
While she was yet a small child, she craved such knowledge as is to be found in books, pestering the royal scribes and sages with questions unbecoming to royal females.
Bill Jennings has sold off part of his land to that builder who was pestering to buy your land from you.
Mark Samuels had been pestering for permission to call upon her since she was barely out of short skirts.
Fielding--is such a remarkable man, and I was always pestering him with questions.
There was a strong likelihood that the judge meant to order him to quit pestering Rachel.
I had a camera round my neck so I looked like a guy pestering people for photos and I had a little card I was flashing.
If this was just one of his usual aimless visits to the bridge he would have been pestering Sheridan or Hillier by now.
Button quite adamant on this, and it took her several months of pestering to win him over.
The young roue was hurt at her silence, and continued pestering her, giving her all the best pieces on his plate after tasting them first.