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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pester" Quotes from Famous Books

... satisfied with that effect, and hence in vanity he seeks solace. Goethe, you may be sure, enjoyed the hero-worshipful gaze focussed on him from all the tables of the Caffe' Greco. But not for adulation had he come to Rome. Rome was what he had come for; and the fussers of the coteries must not pester him in his golden preoccupation with the antique world. Tischbein was very useful in warding off the profane throng—fanning away the flies. Let us hope he was actuated solely by zeal in Goethe's interest, not by the desire to ...

— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm

... please don't pester me. I'll see you again to-morrow," Rachel returned with a touch of elderly hauteur. And, despite all his entreaties, she would not be persuaded to change her mind. Already he was looking at her with a touch of suspicion, she thought; and as she checked his remonstrances, ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... be more and more violent," said Lady Dalrymple. "Well, dears," she added, resignedly, "in my opinion it will be better to see him, and have done with him. If we do not, I'm afraid he will pester us further. I will see him. You had better ...

— The American Baron • James De Mille

... Dam that guides will come and pester you. The guide carries an umbrella and offers to show Amsterdam in such a way as to save you much money. He is quite useless, and the quickest means of getting free is to say that you have come to the city for no other purpose than to pay extravagantly for everything. ...

— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas

... like to make good use of what we can find him, and make a good English Hero of Oliver—something of a Johnsonian figure—I hope you will try and pester these Lincoln ladies and gentlemen. I wrote to Livesey: who once, he says, had a butler named Oliver Cromwell. That is the nearest approach to history I ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

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