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
Badger (plural Badgers)
A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
Badger
A village in Shropshire, England.
A habitational surname.
• barged, garbed
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.
• (animal): brock
• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite
• (mammal): cete, colony
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.
• (to fart): Thesaurus:flatulate
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.
• 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
22 January 2025
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