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Adjective: pestering  pe-stu-ring
  1. Causing irritation or annoyance
    "swarms of pestering gnats"
    - annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
Verb: pester  pe-stu(r)
  1. Annoy persistently
    "The children pestered the boy because of his stammer"
    - tease, badger, bug, beleaguer

See also: disagreeable, pesterer

Type of: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment

Encyclopedia: Pester