devil for

devil (someone or an animal) for something

Fig. to bother or harass someone or an animal for something. The child kept deviling her mother for an ice-cream cone. The kittens continued to devil the mother cat for their dinner.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lance	LANTS	English
Catherine	['kæθərin]
Willemina	vil-lə-MEE-nah, wil-lə-MEE-nah	Dutch
Mikhail	mee-khah-EEL (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Hasan	-	Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Indonesian
GiosuÈ	jo-ZWE	Italian