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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PESTER, v. Sc. usage: to obstruct, impede (Ags., Ayr. 1965). Obs. in Eng. in 17th c.Per. 1857 J. Stewart Sketches 62:
Your door the steadiest foot wad pester, Here heaps of filth, there dubs o'mester.Kcd. 1934 Gibbon & McDiarmid Sc. Scene 275:
The weeds that are coming so thick in the swedes. It's fair pestered with the dirt.
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