# pester
## English
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈpɛstɚ/, [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
* Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

* bepester
* pesterable
* pester power
* pesterer
* pestery

#### Related terms

* pest

#### Translations
### Noun

pester (plural pesters)
* 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.

### Anagrams

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

## Breton
### Noun

pester
* plural of post

## Dutch
### Etymology

From pesten +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛs.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pes‧ter

### Noun

pester m (plural pesters, diminutive pestertje n)
* a bully (person who bullies or pesters somebody)

#### Synonyms

* pestkop

#### Related terms

* pesten, pesterij

### Anagrams

* perste, preest, preste, streep

## French
### Etymology

From peste +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛs.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pester
* to rant, curse, fulminate

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “pester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* pertes, prêtes, prêtés

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

pester m or f
* indefinite plural of pest

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* pestar

### Noun

pester m or f
* indefinite feminine plural of pest

## Slovene
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pèːstər/

### Adjective

pẹ́stər (comparative pẹ́strejši, superlative nȁjpẹ́strejši)
* colourful, variegated

#### Inflection
### Further reading

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