Badger

['bædʒə] or ['bædʒɚ]

Definition

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

(verb.) persuade through constant efforts.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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 / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Persecute, tease, worry, harry, annoy, vex, plague, harass, torment, pester, trouble, bother, hector.

Editor: Vanessa

Definition

n. a burrowing nocturnal hibernating animal about the size of a fox eagerly hunted by dogs.—v.t. to pursue with eagerness as dogs hunt the badger: to pester or worry.—ns. Badg′er-bait′ing the sport of setting dogs to draw out a badger from its hole; Badg′er-dog a long-bodied and short-legged dog used in drawing the badger—the Ger. dachshund.—adj. Badg′er-legged having legs of unequal length as the badger was vulgarly supposed to have.—adv. Badg′erly like a badger: grayish-haired elderly.—To overdraw one's badger to overdraw one's banking account.

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