BADGER

badger

(noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

Wisconsinite, Badger

(noun) a native or resident of Wisconsin

badger

(verb) persuade through constant efforts

tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer

(verb) annoy persistently; “The children teased the boy because of his stammer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

Badger (plural Badgers)

A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Badger

A village in Shropshire, England.

A habitational surname.

Anagrams

• barged, garbed

Etymology 1

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).

A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.

(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

Synonyms

• (animal): brock

• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite

Holonyms

• (mammal): cete, colony

Verb

badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)

To pester, to annoy persistently.

(British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.

Synonyms

• (to fart): Thesaurus:flatulate

Etymology 2

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

Anagrams

• barged, garbed

Source: Wiktionary


Badg"er, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an old verb badge to lay up provisions to sell again.]

Definition: An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

Badg"er, n. Etym: [OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + -ard, in reference to the white mark on its forehead. See Badge,n.]

1. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

2. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. Badger dog. (Zoöl.) See Dachshund.

Badg"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Badgered (p. pr. & vb. n. Badgering.] Etym: [For sense 1, see 2d Badger; for 2, see 1st Badger.]

1. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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