I note that although a pest may pester you, the word pester originally wasn't associated with the word pest in any way. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
"Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' " says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
ABC: Well the whole thing about 'pester' power for children which advertising of course colludes with so often, that needs challenging. From Wordnik.com. [Interview: The Good Childhood Inquiry] Reference
That was the place where Ned hung it when he wanted to "pester" me; he did it with an old rake handle. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
• fail to acknowledge the targeting of children to 'pester' parents for unhealthy food as valid grounds for complaint. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
They'll not pester you after they get their money. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
If we do not, I'm afraid he will pester us further. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
"But half of me might remain to pester you," she finished. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
Perhaps you can get one to come and pester me in lieu of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
"Don't pester us, Hicks!" warned Captain Butch Brewster, grimly. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
During the hot months all kinds of insects pester the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
That was because they were so eager to pester girls like Melliflua. From Wordnik.com. [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference
This one is just going to be -- just kind of fester and pester folks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004] Reference
I hope he is cured forever of making of himself a pester and a plague. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Dolphin] Reference
'Why will you pester me?' she asked, with a weary little spurt of temper. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
They will razz me, pester me with hard questions in order to expose me. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
She tells me I do this all the time; just pester people for the fun of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Locked Door.] Reference
Their successors pester you to deal with them (as opposed to someone else). From Wordnik.com. [The Banking Revolution] Reference
"I just want to make certain you don't come back to pester me in my lifetime.". From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
How much more easily they would find him and pester him if he went to Brighton. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
I blurted out "What is he that he should pester his betters with his attentions?". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
You must not think, because I pester you not with questions, I have no curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Is mine such a pleasant prospect, that you come to pester me, giving me no peace?. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
The island's residents had better manners; they stared but didn't pester the pair. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty In Purple--And Polka Dots] Reference
He can, when necessary, pester responsible persons till they are goaded into action. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
And many thanks for the opportunity to read the book and pester you with some questions. From Wordnik.com. [Thea Joselow: "Why Read an Author Who Hasn't Lived?" An Interview With Joe Quirk] Reference
So many young freshmen come and pester her master under the pretext of paying their respects. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There weren't to be any Ites or any other "furriners" left alive to pester his chosen people. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
They ignored it, instead scrambling back toward the ladybugs, eager to pester them some more. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
It was a realization I would remember later in life when folk would pester me for information. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
I mean Heul and young Fernandus, the guys who were trying to pester Mrs. Jongs out of her house. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
I don't mean to pester my reader with a moral, or by too much moralizing, although I am tempted to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Sabotage Field Manual] Reference
For example, we already see e-mail addresses after articles in publications, allowing readers to pester authors directly. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
In the annals of ways to pester New York City pedestrians, first came the men dressed like chickens and wearing sandwich boards. From Wordnik.com. [Hands Off My Knobs!] Reference
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