pester

present singular third person pesters · participle present pestering · participle past pestered · past pestered

1. transitiveTo bother, harass, or annoy persistently.

   She pestered him to help her.

   1 more example

   He pestered me with questions.

   Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, hound, plague

2. intransitiveobsoletetransitiveTo crowd together thickly.

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   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.

   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

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

plural pesters

1. A bother or nuisance.

   By now I presumed I had become a real pester.

   2017, Samuel J. Archer, Will There Be Another Lincoln, Nixon, Johnson or Kennedy?, page 15