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pestre

pestre is the obsolete form of pester.

Meaning of pester

Verb

pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)

  1. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
    • He pestered me with questions.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To crowd together thickly.
    • That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6

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Forms of pestre

third-person singular presentpestres
present participlepestring
past participlepestred
pastpestred

Questions about pestre

What is pestre the obsolete form of?
Pestre is the obsolete form of pester.

Words near pestre in the dictionary

  1. pestos
  2. pestproof
  3. pestproofed
  4. pestproofing
  5. pestproofs
  6. pestre
  7. pestred
  8. pestres
  9. pestring
  10. pests
  11. pesty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pestre (page history and authors); pester (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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