Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions. synonym: harass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- l. To crowd; encumber; clog; fill; cram.
- To trouble, disturb, or annoy, especially with repeated acts of an annoying kind; harass with petty vexations; plague; worry.
- Synonyms Bother, Plague, etc. See
tease . - noun Encumbrance; obstruction.
- noun A trouble; bother; plague.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
- transitive verb obsolete To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bother ,harass orannoy persistently .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb annoy persistently
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I note that although a pest may pester you, the word pester originally wasn't associated with the word pest in any way.
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2010
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The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.
Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food Susan Linn 2011
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The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.
Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food Susan Linn 2011
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The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.
Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food Susan Linn 2011
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Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's Colby College and co-author of Packaging Girlhood.
Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls 2011
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The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.
Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food Susan Linn 2011
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Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's Colby College and co-author of Packaging Girlhood.
Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls 2011
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"If we ignore them, then they pester, which is fine with me, because I'm really good at forgetting to do stuff like that."
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"Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' " says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's
USATODAY.com News 2011
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If that were to sit and kind of pester a little bit more, maybe a little bit closer to the central Gulf of Mexico, we would be more concerned but at this point, it shouldn't be too much of a terrible issue.
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