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Pesky vs Pest - What's the difference?

pesky | pest |

As an adjective pesky

is annoying, troublesome, irritating.

As a noun pest is

a plague, pestilence, epidemic.

pesky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Annoying, troublesome, irritating.
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    pest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  • An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  • An annoying person.
  • (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
  • Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

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    * (creature ) bug

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