IMPORTUNATE, IMPORTUNATELY, IMPORTUNE, IMPORTUNING, IMPORTUNITY
ADJECTIVES
► ANWILL ► ONWIL ► ONWILL self-willed, stubborn, obstinate; persistently desirous, importunate → c897 obs.
ADVERBS
► BESIEGINGLY urgently, importunately → 1822
NOUNS
► BUSINESS eagerness, earnestness, importunity → a1387 obs.
► NARG continual grumbling, importuning, or fault-finding; peevish wrangling → 1866 Sc.
► IMPORTANCY urgency, importunity → 1598-9 obs.
VERBS
► BONE to beg; to wheedle; to request demandingly, to importune ..1858 Amer. dial.
► DING to reiterate, to repeat, to importune; to harp on one subject → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► EARWIG to urge, to importune; to pester with private importunities or admonitions; to influence or bias a person by secret communications → 1837
► EGG to tease, to annoy, to pester, to irritate; to importune, to find fault continually, to nag → 1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► LOPE to importune → 1902 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NIGG to importune, to trouble with repeated requests or inquiries, to nag or carp at → 1866 Sc.
► RAVEN to importune persistently → 19C Eng. dial.
► TERRIFY to annoy, to irritate; to tease, to worry; to importune; to torment, to pain → 1839 Eng. dial.
► TEW to annoy. to vex; to tease, to importune, to pester; to urge, to persuade → 1781 Eng. dial.
► THRAVE to urge, to importune → 1671 Eng. dial. obs.
► YAAG ► YAG to be importunate, to insist irritatingly with questions or requests, to nag or harp on → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.