英语词汇pesky的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pesky
词源	pesky. Troublesome or annoying. The word, first recorded about 1765, may come from England’s Essex dialect, which also gives us scrimp and snicker. However, Ernest Weekley’s An Ety- mological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) says pesky is an Americanism based on “pest.”
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