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
Ilona	EE-lo-naw (Hungarian), ee-LO-nah (German), EE-lo-nah (Finnish)	Hungarian, German, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech
Nollaig	NAWL-əg	Irish
Nasir	-	Arabic
Percival	PUR-si-vəl (English)	Arthurian Romance, English
Garegin	-	Armenian
Magomet	-	Dagestani, Chechen, Ingush