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peskily

[pes-kee] Origin

pes·ky

[pes-kee]
adjective, -ki·er, -ki·est. Informal.
annoyingly troublesome: bothered by a pesky fly.

Origin:
1765–75; alteration of pesty (pest + -y1)

pesk·i·ly, adverb
pesk·i·ness, noun


vexatious, irksome, bothersome, pestiferous.

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Peskily is always a great word to know.
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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pesky (ˈpɛskɪ)
 
adj , peskier, peskiest
informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) troublesome: pesky flies
 
[C19: probably changed from pesty; see pest]
 
'peskily
 
adv
 
'peskiness
 
n

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pesky
1775, originally in New England dialect, perhaps a dial. formation from pest (cf. plaguy "confounded, annoying, disagreeable"). Partridge suggests an origin in Essex dialect.
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