fastidiar

/fastiˈdjaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to annoy, to bother, to pester

🦟 Fastidiar shares a root with fastidious: both come from Latin fastidium, disgust

Latin fastidium meant loathing or squeamishness. A fastidious person is easily put off, and fastidiar is to put someone off: to annoy them, or to cloy them with too much of something. In Spain, ¡qué fastidio! means what a pain!

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