Pesky vs Pest - What's the difference?
pesky | pest |
(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.
As an adjective pesky
is annoying, troublesome, irritating.As a noun pest is
a plague, pestilence, epidemic.pest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!