~ sb (for / with sth) to annoy sb, especially by asking them sth many times:
[VN] Journalists pestered neighbours for information. * He has been pestering her with phone calls for over a week. * The horses were continually pestered by flies. * [VNtoinf] The kids kept pestering me to read to them. [also V]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pester is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pester a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pester is tagged as verb.
Does pester appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — pester appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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