Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who pesters; one who troubles or worries.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who pesters or harasses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of pester; one who pesters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a persistently annoying person

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Examples

  • It doesn't take much of a storyline shift for a cheery Lothario to be recast as a self-serving pesterer.

    Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010

  • The Northern Congressman retreated before this pertinacious mendicant into his committee-room, and his pesterer followed him closely, nothing abashed, even into the privileged cloisters of the committee.

    Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

  • The Northern Congressman retreated before this pertinacious mendicant into his committee-room, and his pesterer followed him closely, nothing abashed, even into the privileged cloisters of the committee.

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • My family refused to stand anywhere near me, causing the few other tourists to believe I was just a solo deranged wildlife pesterer.

    NewWest.Net All Headlines info@newwest.net 2010

  • He's Rindy's Lije, en 'he's de mos' out'n out pesterer sence Mose wuz born. "

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

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