As verbs the difference between festering and pestering
is that festering is while pestering is .
As nouns the difference between festering and pestering
is that festering is the condition of something that festers while pestering is an act or instance of annoying somebody.
festering
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
The condition of something that festers.
* 1842 , Bradshaw's Journal (volume 3, page 89)
- discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.
pestering
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
An act or instance of annoying somebody.
* 1984 , Richard Shannon, Gladstone: 1809-1865?
- By swaying the Welsh he could at the same time deflect the pesterings he suffered from in England about the 1886 policy...