pesky
Adjective Satellite
- causing irritation or annoyance
- "a pesky mosquito"
Adj
- Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
Adjective
- Annoying, bothersome, or troublesome.
Examples
- Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!
- That pesky dog is barking again.
- Those PESKY blank tiles always appear when you don’t need them.
Origin / Etymology
Possibly from pesty. Compare similar alteration between nasty and nasky.
Synonyms
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing, aggravating, aggy, chagrining, douchetastic, douchey, gittish, honery, irksome, obnoxious, pesky, troublesome, twattish
Scrabble Score: 14
pesky: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpesky: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pesky: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary