English
Etymology
Possibly from pesty. Compare similar alteration between nasty and nasky.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛski/, enPR: pĕʹski
Adjective
pesky (comparative peskier, superlative peskiest)
- (informal) Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:annoying
Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!
That pesky dog is barking again.
Derived terms
Translations
annoying, troublesome, irritating
- Bulgarian: досаден (bg) (dosaden), отегчителен (bg) (otegčitelen)
- Czech: otravný (cs)
- Dutch: irritant (nl), vervelend (nl), rottig (nl), lastig (nl)
- Esperanto: incitema
- Finnish: ärsyttävä (fi)
- French: agaçant (fr)
- German: nervtötend, lästig (de), ärgerlich (de), nervig (de)
- Greek: εκνευριστικός (el) (eknevristikós)
- Ido: tedanto (io), tedero (io)
- Italian: molesto (it), fastidioso (it)
- Macedonian: до́саден (dósaden), здо́девен (zdódeven)
- Norwegian: plagsom (no)
- Polish: cholerny (pl), upierdliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: chato (pt), irritante (pt)
- Romanian: agasant (ro) m, enervant (ro) m
- Russian: надое́дливый (ru) (nadojédlivyj), доку́чливый (ru) (dokúčlivyj), навя́зчивый (ru) (navjázčivyj), назо́йливый (ru) (nazójlivyj)
- Swedish: irriterande (sv)
- Turkish: can sıkıcı (tr), nahoş (tr), sinir bozucu
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