A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. / (archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.

(transitive) To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.

Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly. / (informal) Annoying. / (archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.

(colloquial) Children's ability to make their parents buy something or do something for them by continually asking until the parents agree to do it.

plural of pesticide

(of people, animals, places or substances) Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. / (of illnesses) Spreading in the manner of pestilence.

present participle of pester

An act or instance of annoying somebody.

containing organisms that cause contagious diseases / annoying, vexatious

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pester