pester
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstɚ/, [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Verb edit
pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)
- (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
- He pestered me with questions.
- She pestered him to help her.
- (obsolete, transitive and intransitive) To crowd together thickly.
- 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.
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to annoy persistently
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Noun edit
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.
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Breton edit
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pester
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Noun edit
pester m (plural pesters, diminutive pestertje n)
- A bully (person who bullies or pesters somebody).
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French edit
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Verb edit
pester
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pestant /pɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pesté /pɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | peste /pɛst/ |
pestes /pɛst/ |
peste /pɛst/ |
pestons /pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
pestez /pɛs.te/ |
pestent /pɛst/ |
| imperfect | pestais /pɛs.tɛ/ |
pestais /pɛs.tɛ/ |
pestait /pɛs.tɛ/ |
pestions /pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
pestiez /pɛs.tje/ |
pestaient /pɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pestai /pɛs.te/ |
pestas /pɛs.ta/ |
pesta /pɛs.ta/ |
pestâmes /pɛs.tam/ |
pestâtes /pɛs.tat/ |
pestèrent /pɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | pesterai /pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
pesteras /pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
pestera /pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
pesterons /pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
pesterez /pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
pesteront /pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pesterais /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pesterais /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pesterait /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pesterions /pɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pesteriez /pɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
pesteraient /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | peste /pɛst/ |
pestes /pɛst/ |
peste /pɛst/ |
pestions /pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
pestiez /pɛs.tje/ |
pestent /pɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | pestasse /pɛs.tas/ |
pestasses /pɛs.tas/ |
pestât /pɛs.ta/ |
pestassions /pɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
pestassiez /pɛs.ta.sje/ |
pestassent /pɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | peste /pɛst/ |
— | pestons /pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
pestez /pɛs.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “pester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
pester m or f
- indefinite plural of pest
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pester m or f
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *pьstrъ (“variegated”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pẹ́stər (comparative pẹ́strejši, superlative nȁjpẹ́strejši)
Inflection edit
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Hard | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nom. sing. | péster | péstra | péstro |
| singular | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péster ind péstri def |
péstra | péstro |
| genitive | péstrega | péstre | péstrega |
| dative | péstremu | péstri | péstremu |
| accusative | nominativeinan or genitiveanim |
péstro | péstro |
| locative | péstrem | péstri | péstrem |
| instrumental | péstrim | péstro | péstrim |
| dual | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| accusative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| plural | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstri | péstre | péstra |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrim | péstrim | péstrim |
| accusative | péstre | péstre | péstra |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrimi | péstrimi | péstrimi |
Further reading edit
- “pester”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran