英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛstɚ/, [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
• 韻: -ɛstə(ɹ)

動詞

pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)

1. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.

   Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, hound, plague; see also Thesaurus:pester

   He pestered me with questions.

   She pestered him to help her.

2. (obsolete, transitive and intransitive) To crowd together thickly.

   Synonyms: cattle up, crowd, flock, huddle, throng

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:

     That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.

派生語

関連する語

• pest

名詞

pester (plural pesters)

1. A bother or nuisance.
   • 2017, Samuel J. Archer, Will There Be Another Lincoln, Nixon, Johnson or Kennedy?, page 15:

     By now I presumed I had become a real pester.

アナグラム

• Peters, Pretes, pestre, peters, pre-set, preset, serpet