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PESTERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pesterer mean? 

PESTERER (noun)
  The noun PESTERER has 1 sense:

1. a persistently annoying personplay

  Familiarity information: PESTERER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PESTERER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A persistently annoying person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; cuss; gadfly; pest; pesterer

Hypernyms ("pesterer" is a kind of...):

persecutor; tormenter; tormentor (someone who torments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pesterer"):

nudnick; nudnik ((Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest)

Derivation:

pester (annoy persistently)


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