badger

IPA: bˈædʒɝ

noun

  • 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.
  • (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.
  • A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
  • A village in Shropshire, England.
  • A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  • A habitational surname from Old English.
  • A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.

verb

  • To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
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