verb
- continuously bothering or annoying someone with repeated requests or questions
Usage: present participle of ‘pester’
noun
- the act of continuously bothering or annoying someone
Usage: gerund form
Examples
- Stop pestering me with questions while I’m trying to work.
- The children kept pestering their parents for ice cream.
- His constant pestering finally convinced her to go to the movie.
- She was tired of her brother’s pestering about borrowing her car.
- The pestering of customers by aggressive salespeople drove business away.
- After hours of pestering, he finally got permission to stay up late.