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单词 pester
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pestern.

Brit. /ˈpɛstə/, U.S. /ˈpɛstər/
Forms: 1500s– pester, 1600s pesture.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pester v.1
Etymology: < pester v.1With sense 2a compare earlier pesterer n.
1. An obstruction; an encumbrance. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who
encumberc1330
cumberc1425
cumbererc1450
encumbrance1535
encumbry1546
pesterance1548
burdener1552
pester1569
cloyance1593
encumberment1600
impedimenta1600
pesterer1611
baggage1612
luggage1614
cumbrance1645
embarrassment1676
downdraughta1681
hamperera1837
cumberment1840
cloyer1842
1569 E. Elviden Closet of Counsells 83 How much the more is simple sort opprest with further woes, When thraldomes pester and his yoke is bent so much to those.
1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 789 A very fayre entrance or passage,..altogether voyde of any pester of yce.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. ii. §8. 418 Being without carriage, pester, or other impediment.
2.
a. Annoyance, nuisance; trouble. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > annoyance or vexation
teenOE
dretchinga1050
taryingnessa1300
annoyc1300
dretch?13..
noyc1330
unquertc1390
noyinga1398
nuisancec1400
unsoundc1400
noisance1421
annuisancec1440
discumbrancea1500
noymentc1503
cumber?a1513
molesting1523
tary1528
irk1570
pester1581
incommodation1664
fasha1796
all-overs1893
buggeration1962
wind-up1984
1581 J. Field Let. 25 Nov. in R. Brinkley Nathan Field (1928) App. 149 Or Cyttie hath bine well eased of the pester of those wickednesses & abuses, that were wonte to be nourished by those impure enterludes & playes.
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 98 To the great pesture and disturbance of that people.
1709 J. Spelman Life Ælfred the Great ii. 117 The Licentiousness and Unruliness of Servants..gives Trouble to all the Justices in the Kingdom to regulate; the Pester and Annoyance of the Kingdom.
b. Chiefly regional. As a count noun: a person who or thing which is troublesome or annoying; a nuisance; a pest. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses
pursuera1382
running sore1453
pesta1522
gall1537
grater1549
plaguer1598
afflicter1600
inflicter1605
a thorn in the flesh or side1611
incubus1648
cumber1669
harasser1707
scunner1796
tin kettle1796
pester1810
pesterer1824
baitera1845
pestilence1886
nudnik1916
1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 21 Nov. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 54 As for the Dr, he is ‘nothing but a pester’—Susan & I took a great deal of pains to go either before or behind to get rid of his company.
1829 in L. Murray New Oxf. Bk. Austral Verse (1991) 9 You..call for cool jellies and buns—But hotter and hotter it waxes,—The jelly to liquid soon runs;—His dainties are only a pester.
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xii. 205 As likely as any way he was a plague and a pester.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Pester, trouble. ‘I've had sich a pester to hot yŏ the waiter.’
2000 Pink (Coventry) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 20 Festa was a pester to City as he netted the opening goal with a firm header.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pesterv.1

Brit. /ˈpɛstə/, U.S. /ˈpɛstər/
Forms: 1500s peister, 1500s–1600s pestre, 1500s–1600s pestur, 1500s–1600s pesture, 1500s– pester.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: French empestrer ; impester v.
Etymology: Probably shortened < Middle French empestrer impede, entangle (see impester v.), or perhaps shortened < impester v. (although this is apparently first attested later). In senses 3 and 4 influenced by association with pest n. Compare earlier poister v.The dropping in English of the initial em- of the French etymon may have been encouraged by the fact that the association with the underlying noun meaning ‘shackle’ in French was not obvious (see pastern n.), and also by the existence of Middle French depestrer (see depester v.), both of which allowed extrapolation of a simplex -pestr-, which is apparently not, however, attested in French.
1. transitive. To impede or restrict the movement of (a person); to entangle, encumber, obstruct. Also in extended use. Obsolete (regional in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber
accumberc1275
encumberc1386
accloy1422
overlay1441
cumber1493
poister1523
pester1533
overgrowa1550
clog1564
cloy1564
aggravate1573
trasha1616
hamper1775
mither1847
lumber1861
1533 J. Russell Let. 29 Aug. (P.R.O. SP 3/7 No. 36) You ar dayly peisteryd wt busynes.
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) iii. xi. 25/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Romane soldiers were..pestered with their heauie armour and weapons.
1608 J. Smith True Relation Occurr. Virginia 28 The Indians seeing me pestred in the O[o]se, called to me.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 29 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Seing him pestred in a narrow passage.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 328 Cleobulus then pester'd in the throng By little Ajax taken was alive.
1819 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 159 I's pestert wid an ill-gien weyfe.
1857 J. Stewart Sketches 62 Your door the steadiest foot wad pester, Here heaps of filth, there dubs o' mester.
1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 185 Well Joe, ef your boots are new, and you are n't pestered with wimmin and children, p'r'aps you'll go.
2.
a. transitive. To fill up or obstruct (a place or thoroughfare), esp. by crowding; to overcrowd; to clog up; to overload (a ship). Also in extended use. Now regional or historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction
cumberc1394
encumberc1400
cloy1548
pester1548
accumberc1571
clog1586
to take up1587
lumber1642
over-clog1660
crowd1741
jama1865
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. ciijv Whether also fled so many Englishemen, that the place was pestured, and..thei wer..likely to be famished.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 44 Some pester the commons, with iades & with geese.
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xiii. 544 It is not my meaning to pester this Booke with Precedents.
1615 W. Baffin Jrnl. 13 July in T. Rundall Narr. Voy. towards North-West (1849) 125 We sawe the land trendinge from the cape..very thick pestred with ice, and..resolued heare could be no passadge.
a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 10 That noe parte of the Harbor might bee over pestred.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 220 I shall not pester my Account..with Descriptions of Places.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. x. 246 Her hands..are as few as is consistent with the safety of the ship, that she may be less pestered by the stowage of provisions.
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 96 A Rabble of blackguard boys..pestered the Staircase.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod in Prose Wks. (1985) 1020 We had pestered our ship so with codfish, that we threw numbers of them overboard again.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Add. 629 Pestered, overloaded; a sailor's term. ‘He'd gotten deäls stowed all oher decks an' hetches while th' keel was fair pestered wi' 'em.’
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ & ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Sc. Scene 275 It's fair pestered with the dirt.
1941 A. Harbage Shakespeare's Audience ii. 19 The churches stood empty, while the theatres were ‘pestered’.
1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee 22 The quickest path is by way of..Old Street, which thoroughfare is now pestered with cobblers' benches and cooks' stalls.
b. transitive. To crowd (persons or things) together; to crowd in. Obsolete.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in
crama1400
wedge1513
enfarce1564
pester1570
farce1579
stuff1579
ram1582
impact1601
thrum1603
to cramp in1605
crowd1609
impack1611
screw1635
infarciate1657
stodge1674
choke1747
bodkin1793
jam1793
bodkinize1833
pump1899
shoehorn1927
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner
hoderc1330
clotter1537
pester1570
huddle1579
huddle1600
clutterc1610
lumber1678
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Spirituall Husbandry i, in tr. Popish Kingdome f. 74 Through your disswasion good, I might receyue this gaine alone That now am pestred with the prease.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 15 They..whom Anthony admitted, were expelled agayn, pestred in Gallies and sent into Hellespont by Marcus Aurelius.
1586 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1875) (modernized text) 2nd ser. 76 As many pestered into every chamber as it will receive, by reason of which throng and straitness oftentimes infectious sicknesses do reign amongst vs.
a1595 R. Southwell Humble Supplication (1600) 51 So many other base and reuiling words,..are pestered together in this Proclamation.
1637 J. Milton Comus 1 Men..Confin'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold [i.e. the Earth] here.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 154 in Trav. Persia With several great Trees pester'd one within another.
c. intransitive. Of a person: to crowd, press, jostle. rare (English regional in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > crowd together
thickc1000
pressa1350
empressc1400
shock1548
serry1581
pester1610
serr1683
thicken1726
crush1755
scrouge1798
pack1828
to close up1835
to be packed (in) like sardines1911
scrum1913
1610 E. Skory Extract Hist. Henry IV 15 This villaine..to that purpose pestered somewhat neere his Person.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 211 Pester, to..inconvenience by crowding and squeezing... ‘Doon't ye pester soo’ is a common exclamation in a crush.
3. transitive. Of a rat, insect, or other pest: to infest (a place or thing); to plague. North American in later use.In quot. 1563 figurative: cf. sense 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of animal) > infest (of insects, vermin, etc.)
pester1563
1563 Burnynge Paules Church sig. p.i Howe was this Realme pesterd with straunge rulers, straunge Gods..and howe is it now peaceablye ridde of theym all.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iv. sig. K2 The earth with Serpents shalbe pestered.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 22 Cornish houses are most pestred with Rats, a brood very hurtful.
1625 A. Hatch in S. Purchas Pilgrims x. iii. 1701 The climate is..not much pestred with infectious or obnoxious ayres.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 20 These Vermin that pester the outside of Animals.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 4 There are no Inhabitants on those Islands, for they are so pestered with Tigers.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 559 [Malabar] is rich and fertile, but pestered with green adders.
1812 D. Souter Gen. View Agric. Banff App. 38 If it [sc. the land] be pestered with quicken, swine-arnot or other such spreading roots.
1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 256 The prairie teems with grasshoppers and crickets, and many a dwelling is pestered with mill-moths.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 133/1 The green plant lice that cluster on your rose bush tips, or the black ones that pester nasturtiums.
2002 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Mag.) 35 Stauffer controls the insects that pester plants in the Chicago Park District's conservatories.
4.
a. transitive. To trouble, bother, or annoy (a person) persistently, esp. with petty and reiterated questions or requests; to vex, plague.Now the usual sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 238 The Duchesse pestred with suche like talke, sayde vnto him. ‘Sir Countie, me think you ought to haue satisfied your self with my first refusall.’
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. I2 You are pestred with some troubles.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 82 He was perplext and pesterd in his hed.
1600 Countess of Essex in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 57 I..had never ceased to pester you with my complaints.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 162 The hollow..pesters the Workman to get the Letter out of the Mold and Matrice.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xlii. 24 From thence they proceeded to Amiens, where they dined and were pestered by begging friars.
1795 T. Jefferson Writings IV. 124 I pestered him with questions.
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Aug. 352 You are pestered to death to find out the way to..get from place to place.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xiii. 349 The boys pester us to buy wretched half-dead chameleons.
1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale i. 3 It might be that an admirer of his had pestered him to introduce me.
1996 V. Walters Rude Girls ii. 26 It's better than staying at home where I'm pestered twenty-four hours a day by my parents.
b. intransitive. To act in a persistently vexing, irritating, or demanding manner; to be bothersome.
ΚΠ
?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. H3 Why shoulde I hope after life, since my Lord the Duke, wallowing in wil, and pestering in pleasures, desireth my dispatchaunce?
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. The tax upon paper does not lessen the number of scribblers, who daily pester, &c.
1815 D. Humphreys Yankey in Eng. 107 Poke your fun, jeer, pester, plague.
1888 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 2nd Ser. 232 Creditors were pestering.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 171 Course then you'd have all the cranks pestering.
1986 J. Viorst Necessary Losses iii. 46 We clamour for her attention. We woo, pester, charm.
c. transitive. to pester the life (also soul, dickens, etc.) out of = to plague the life out of at plague v. 2b.
ΚΠ
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlviii. 431 You pester my poor old life out to get you into the world. You won't be able to hold your own there, you silly little fool.
1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 767/1 They say that since he's spent Sam Stover's, that owned it, pesterin' the life almost out of him tryin' to git him to sell.
1891 T. De W. Talmage Night Scenes City Life xi. 161 His seven hundred wives almost pestered the life out of him!
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 719 Wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a body unless he likes it some men do.
1976 Times 2 Jan. 10/6 Philip Henry didn't so much walk with God as pester the life out of Him.
2002 Indianapolis Star (Nexis) 26 Dec. 1 e The streets of London were filled with panhandlers, pretending to be tradesmen..and pestering the Dickens out of people.

Derivatives

ˈpestered adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > encumbering > encumbered
pestered1567
cloyed1599
hampered1633
encumbered1785
landed1866
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling to obstruction > encumbered
pestered1567
lumbered1803
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis VI. f. 79 For me is violence meete. Through this the pestred cloudes I chace.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. ii. 23 Who then shall blame His pester'd Senses to recoyle, and start? View more context for this quotation
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 8 Very much crouded and pester'd ships.
1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage v He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal.
1989 R. Hansen Nebraska Stories 138 My husband rested his pestered head on my lap and I rearranged his long hair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pesterv.2

Brit. /ˈpɛstə/, U.S. /ˈpɛstər/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Angloromani. Etymon: Angloromani peser-.
Etymology: Apparently < Angloromani peser- to pay (1863 as pesser in B. C. Smart Dial. Eng. Gypsies; compare Welsh Romani peser-; compare continental Romani forms in pleiser- or pleisker-), perhaps influenced by pester v.1
Showmen's slang and Market-traders' slang.
transitive and intransitive. To pay.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)]
payc1387
to pay for——c1387
to come off?1544
settle1788
spring1906
pester1936
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid v. 53 She had to pester up herself out of the pound you give her.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid viii. 88 Tell him to go out and get me a new shirt... Tell him to pester about seven and six for it.
1979 P. O'Shaughnessy Market Traders' Slang 14 Pester,..pay. ‘Don't pester for the gilly—he's a lugger.’
2000 Times (Nexis) 10 June Someone might say..‘Chavvy pester?’—‘Has he paid?’

Derivatives

ˈpestering n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > action of paying
payment1389
payingc1390
solution1489
mail-paying1581
settlement1729
paying out1863
pestering1936
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xi. 116 ‘It's his flat. He pays the rent.’ ‘Sure. I know he does the pestering.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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