pesterern.
/ˈpɛst(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈpɛstərər/ A person who or thing which pesters; a nuisance.
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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
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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Embarasseur, an intricator, pesterer, comberer.
1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 182 To keep that Side of the Country clear of Pesterers.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pesterer, one that pesters or disturbs.
1803 C. Brown Let. 27 Mar. in D. Clark Charles Brockden Brown (1952) 210 Whenever anxiety hovers over you, one thought that such a friend and sister is yours should put the pesterer to flight.
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 30 Of all pesterers that ever fastened on man he was the most insufferable.
1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 20 He has seriously damaged his..walking-stick on the fore-arm of some street-pesterer.
1959 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians xv. 295 Modern American advertising is aimed at the woman, who is, if not always the buyer at least the pesterer.
1985 Consumer Electronics Dec. 126/2 He'd just persuaded a matronly-looking woman to purchase, and he simply waved the pesterer away.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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