Pester vs Peter - What's the difference?
pester | peter |
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* 1911 , Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993, Chapter I
* 1933 , Over the Garden Wall ,Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
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(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, attributed to St. Peter.
As verbs the difference between pester and peter
is that pester is to bother, harass or annoy persistently while peter is (most often used in the phrase peter out) to dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.As a noun peter is
(hypocoristic slang ) the penis.pester
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Alternative forms
* pestre (obsolete)Synonyms
* badger * bug * houndAnagrams
* * English transitive verbs ----peter
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Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of Peter)- She knew of no Peter , and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
- And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter , and upon this rock I will build my church;