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In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstɚ/, [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

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.

• bepester

• pesterable

• pesterer

• pesteringly

• pesterment

• pesterous

• pester power

• pestersome

• pestery

• unpestered

• pest

to annoy persistently

• Bengali: সাতানো (satano)
• Bulgarian: досаждам (bg) (dosaždam), тормозя (bg) (tormozja)
• Czech: obtěžovat (cs) impf, otravovat (cs) impf, dotírat impf
• Dutch: pesten (nl)
• Finnish: kiusata (fi)
• Galician: abouxar (gl), amocar (gl)
• German: belästigen (de), behelligen (de)
• Hindi: खून पीना (khūn pīnā, literally “to drink [someone's] blood”)
• Ingrian: tarttua
• Japanese: 悩ます (ja) (なやます, nayamasu), せがむ (ja) (segamu)
• Macedonian: до́саѓа (dósaǵa), гњави (gnjavi)
• Māori: pāengaenga, whakapōrearea, whakakūrakuraku, whakatīwheta
• Portuguese: atazanar (pt)
• Russian: досажда́ть (ru) impf (dosaždátʹ)
• Spanish: atosigar (es), molestar (es), dar la tabarra, jorobar (es), importunar (es), fastidiar (es), incomodar (es), incordiar (es) (colloquial)
• Swedish: plåga (sv), ofreda (sv)
• Tagalog: galitin

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.

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

pester

1. plural of post

From pesten +‎ -er.

• IPA(key): /ˈpɛs.tər/
• Hyphenation: pes‧ter

pester m (plural pesters, diminutive pestertje n)

1. a bully (person who bullies or pesters somebody)

• pestkop
• pesten, pesterij
• perste, preest, streep

From peste +‎ -er.

• IPA(key): /pɛs.te/

pester

1. to rant, curse, fulminate

• “pester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• pertes, prêtes, prêtés

pester m or f

1. indefinite plural of pest

• pestar

pester m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of pest

From Proto-Slavic *pьstrъ (“variegated”).

• IPA(key): /pèːstər/

pẹ́stər (comparative pẹ́strejši, superlative nȁjpẹ́strejši)

1. colourful, variegated

• “pester”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “pester”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references