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To pester someone is to keep at them until they feel worn down — usually by asking again and again. A child pestering a parent for a snack; a pestering you with calls. The sting is the , not one polite request. It is informal everyday English, a little complaining in tone: the speaker usually sides with the person being asked, not the asker. You pester a person, not a thing. Older English also used pester for crowding a place or getting in someone’s way, sitting close to pest, but that is not how people use it now. In a formal letter you would not write pester; you would say keep asking or repeatedly request.
組成From Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), later influenced by English pest. The modern “keep bothering” sense grew out of an older “infest” meaning. It looks like pest + -er, and that is a fair comparison, though the French verb is the real start.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pesterverb/ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
- 1
To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
- He pestered me with questions.
- She pestered him to help her.
- 2
obsoleteTo crowd together thickly.
- 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.
pesternoun/ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
- 1
A bother or nuisance.
- By now I presumed I had become a real pester.
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