pesky

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   informal: annoying, troublesome, or difficult to deal with

   Cutting the pens from old case knives was pesky tedious work.

Common collocations

• pesky mosquito Adjective + noun

An American English alteration of pesty, from pest + -y, perhaps influenced by similar expressive adjective pairs. It is now a common informal word rather than a narrowly regional form.

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