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单词 pestering
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pesteringn.

Brit. /ˈpɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɛstərɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s pesteringe, 1500s pestring, 1500s– pestering.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pester v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < pester v.1 + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly earlier pesterance n.
The action or an instance of pestering.
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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.

Brit. /ˈpɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɛstərɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s–1700s pestring, 1600s– pestering.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pester v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < pester v.1 + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier pesterable adj., pesterous adj.
That pesters; annoying, troublesome.
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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.
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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).

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ˈpestering
ˈpestering n.
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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.’
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n.1552adj.1606
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