pester power
Children's ability to make their parents buy something or do something for them by…Children's ability to make their parents buy something or do something for them by continually asking until the parents agree to do it.
Meaning
1 senses(colloquial, uncountable)Children's ability to make their parents buy something or do something for them by continually asking until the parents agree to do it.
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedkidfluence
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.