pesky
Use Pesky in a sentence
ki adjective, pes·ki·er, pes·ki·est. Informal.
annoyingly troublesome: bothered by a pesky fly.
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pesky (ˈpɛskɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , peskier, peskiest | |
| informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) troublesome: pesky flies | |
| [C19: probably changed from pesty; see | |
| 'peskily | |
| —adv | |
| 'peskiness | |
| —n | |
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Pesky
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
Conventional and organic gardening methods allow different types of insecticides to control those pesky bugs.
To his annoyance, his pesky neighbors refuse to leave him alone.
Now a huge swath of west-facing slope-and the pesky stone structures thereon-have been cleared to make way for a small farm.
Because of those pesky global imbalances, however, not everyone can run a large surplus.
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