0 present participle of pester
1 to behave in an annoying manner towards someone by doing or asking for something repeatedly:
At the frontier, there were people pestering tourists for cigarettes, food, or alcohol.
[ + to infinitive ] John has been pestering her to go out with him all month.
He accused me of pestering and badgering him for the last three years.
But there may be a large number of debts which ought to be paid and the creditors may be pestering him.
Let these people get their coal not by begging or pestering for it but as a right.
In practice, the legislation is a charter for pestering employers, who will have to give refusal letters to all the claimants who contact them direct.
Those which are pestering us at the moment will be with us for many years.
We have been pestering the factor, the local authority, all responsible authorities, to make the houses more habitable, but nothing has been done yet.
While they will welcome any information given to them, they are quite able to discourage the pestering for votes in the way of canvassing.
Is that not why they have not been pestering him with demands to bring in that outrageous system?
