badger

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see also: Badger

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈbædʒə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbædʒɚ/

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

1. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
4. (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

Translations

• French: blaireau
• German: Dachs
• Italian: tasso
• Portuguese: texugo
• Russian: барсу́к
• Spanish: tejón

Verb

badger (badgers, present participle badgering; past and past participle badgered)

1. To pester, to annoy persistently.

   He kept badgering her about her bad habits.

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

Synonyms

• (to fart) Thesaurus:flatulate

Translations

• French: taper sur le système, casser les couilles, emmerder, les briser, beurrer la raie
• German: belästigen, plagen, piesacken
• Russian: дразни́ть
• Spanish: fastidiar, molestar

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

1. (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.

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Badger

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Noun

badger (plural badgers)

1. A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.

Proper noun

1. A village in Shropshire, England.
2. Surname

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