Usually means: Annoyingly troublesome or persistent.
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  1. pesky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pesky: Merriam-Webster
  3. pesky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pesky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pesky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pesky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pesky, pesky: Wordnik
  8. pesky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pesky: Wiktionary
  10. pesky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pesky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pesky: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pesky, pesky: Dictionary.com
  14. pesky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pesky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pesky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pesky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pesky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pesky: Rhymezone
  20. Pesky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. PESKY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. pesky: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pesky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pesky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pesky: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PESKY: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pesky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See peskier as well.)

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adjective:  (informal) Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

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