单词 | pestering |
释义 | pesteringn. The action or an instance of pestering. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment cumbermentc1300 accumbrancec1330 encumbermentc1330 cumbrance1535 pesterance1548 pestering1552 cumbera1618 embarrassment1689 hampering1812 1552 Reg. Privy Council 23 July in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1858) 10 199 Without sume hinderaunce to the cuntrie, and pestering of the trayne. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 59 Makinge the decks..cleare of anie pesteringe or impediments. 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest x. f. 54v For that the pestring of the Forest with many houses, are noysome to the Forest. 1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 5 The trouble and pestering of Porters, who with much noyse and little comlinesse are euery yeare most vnnecessarily imployed. 1654 in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) III. 63 Let not too many soldiers be put on a vessel, to prevent pestering. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. x. 116 Clacking of pattens and pestering of sweepers. 1872 S. Butler Erewhon xviii. 161 You will yourself become liable to the pesterings of the unborn. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 2/1 Well, there are pesterings and pesterings; and last night's demonstration seems to us to be a wise and legitimate way of carrying out what the Prime Minister advised. 1993 Guardian 6 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 64/2 The Jordanians are proudly hospitable. And there's no pestering, no baksheesh. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pesteringadj. That pesters; annoying, troublesome. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > encumbering cumbrousa1400 accumbrousa1450 pesterable1540 pesterous1548 clogginga1568 cumbersome1594 pestering1606 encumbering1641 cloying1647 hampering1812 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vi. sig. B4v Our Kirk-courtes or yardes..being ordinarly bedunged by pestring and pasturing brute. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 51 All the hell pestering rabble of Sumners and Apparitors. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ III. 30 Scatter them about with his wonted pestifying and pestring Air of Assurance. 1755 Country Gentleman's Compan. (ed. 2) 185 His Noisomeness and pestering Company. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Let. 4 Aug. (1945) I. 465 Old Gran is a sad pestering old body for all that. 1868 A. D. Whitney Patience Strong's Outings 125 Her raw girl, and her pestering stove. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 74 I pity him, if he is to be at the beck and call of all the pestering people in Brixham. 1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 90 The term ‘paparazzi’, which refers to the photographers who buzz like pestering mosquitoes around the famous, was inspired by a character in La Dolce Vita. Derivatives ˈpesteringly adv. in a pestering way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adverb] grievously1303 teenfullya1375 griefc1400 infestuously1604 on, upon the back of1608 pesteringly1657 harassingly1822 1657 R. Josselin Diary 17 Apr. (1976) 398 My meditacons pestringly vile, the Lord helpe mee for his mercy sake. 1805 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 93 How pesteringly I can scribble when there is business to agitate. 1996 Sunday Tel. 21 Apr. 29/3 Well known novelists suffer from a surfeit of academic visitors pesteringly anxious to discuss their works. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈpestering 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.’ < n.1552adj.1606 as lemmas |
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