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badger
(bædʒəʳ)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense badgers, present participle badgering, past tense, past participle badgered
1. countable noun
A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
2. verb
If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions.
She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something. [VERB noun]
They kept phoning and writing, badgering me to go back. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
I had foolishly allowed myself to be badgered into volunteering . [VERB noun + into]
Synonyms: pester, worry, harry, bother More Synonyms of badger
badger in British English
(ˈbædʒə)
noun
1.
any of various stocky omnivorous musteline mammals of the subfamily Melinae, such as Meles meles (Eurasian badger), occurring in Europe, Asia, and North America: order Carnivora (carnivores). They are typically large burrowing animals, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head
Compare ferret badger, hog badger2. honey badger
verb
3. (transitive)
to pester or harass
Word origin
C16: variant of badgeard, probably from badge (from the white mark on its forehead) + -ardbadger in American English
(ˈbædʒər)
nounWord forms: plural ˈbadgers or ˈbadger
1.
any of certain mammals of a family (Mustelidae) of burrowing carnivores (esp. generaTaxidea and Meles) of North America, Europe, and Asia, with a broad back, thick, short legs, and long claws on the forefeet
2.
the fur of a badger
3. Austral
a.
wombat
b.
bandicoot
4. US; [B-]; Informal
a person born or living in Wisconsin, called the Badger State
verb transitive
5.
to torment as if baiting a badger; nag
SIMILAR WORDS: bait
Word origin
16th-c. term for earlier brock < bageard < ? ME bage, badge + -ard, -ard, in allusion to white spot on faceImage ofbadger
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homes and habitations, carnivoreIn other languagesbadger
British English: badger /ˈbædʒə/ NOUN
A badger is a wild animal with a white head with two wide black stripes on it.
- American English: badger
- Arabic: غُرَيْر
- Brazilian Portuguese: texugo
- Chinese: 獾
- Croatian: jazavac
- Czech: jezevec
- Danish: grævling
- Dutch: das dier
- European Spanish: tejón
- Finnish: mäyrä
- French: blaireau animal
- German: Dachs
- Greek: ασβός
- Italian: tasso
- Japanese: アナグマ
- Korean: 오소리
- Norwegian: grevling
- Polish: borsuk
- European Portuguese: texugo
- Romanian: bursuc
- Russian: барсук
- Latin American Spanish: tejón
- Swedish: grävling
- Thai: สัตว์สี่เท้ามีขนสีเทาหัวมีลายเส้นสีขาวตัดกับขนสีเทา
- Turkish: porsuk
- Ukrainian: борсук
- Vietnamese: con lửng
British English: badger VERB
If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions.
She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.
- American English: badger
- Brazilian Portuguese: acossar
- Chinese: 纠缠
- European Spanish: insistir en
- French: harceler
- German: zusetzen
- Italian: assillare
- Japanese: しつこく悩ます
- Korean: 닦달하다
- European Portuguese: acossar
- Latin American Spanish: insistir en
All related terms of 'badger'
Chinese translation of 'badger'
badger
(ˈbædʒəʳ)
n (c)
-
獾
(huān) (只, zhī)
vt
-
纠(糾)缠(纏)
(jiūchán)
(verb)
Definition
to pester or harass
She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him.
Synonyms
pester
He's always hanging round and pestering me.
worry
‘Why didn't you tell us?’ – ‘Didn't want to worry you.’
harry
He would exploit and harry his workers.
bother
I don't know why he bothers me with this kind of rubbish.
bug (informal)
I only did it to bug my parents.
bully
plague
I'm not going to plague you with a lot of questions.
hound
hounded by the press
get at
harass
a celebrity routinely harassed by the paparazzi
nag
The more Sarah nagged her, the more stubborn Cissie became.
hassle (informal)
The children started hassling me as soon as I sat down.
chivvy
She was very assertive, endlessly chivvying her staff to work harder.
importune (formal)
beggars importuning passers-by
bend someone's ear (informal)
He was fed up with people bending his ear about staying on at school.
be on someone's back (slang)
related words
collective noun cete
name of home setsett
Additional synonyms
in the sense of bend someone's ear
He was fed up with people bending his ear about staying on at school.
Synonyms
nag,
annoy,
harass,
hassle (informal),
badger (slang),
pesterin the sense of bother
Definition
to trouble (a person) by repeatedly disturbing
I don't know why he bothers me with this kind of rubbish.
Synonyms
pester,
plague,
irritate,
put out,
harass,
nag,
hassle (informal),
inconvenience,
molest,
breathe down someone's neck,
get on your nerves (informal),
nark (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang),
bend someone's ear (informal),
give someone grief (British, South Africa),
get on your wick (British, slang)
in the sense of bug
Definition
to irritate or upset (someone)
I only did it to bug my parents.
Synonyms
annoy,
bother,
disturb,
needle (informal),
plague,
irritate,
harass,
hassle (informal),
aggravate (informal),
badger,
gall,
nettle,
pester,
vex,
irk,
get under your skin (informal),
get on your nerves (informal),
nark (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang),
get up your nose (informal),
be on your back (slang),
piss you off (taboo, slang),
get in your hair (informal),
get on your wick (British, slang),
hack you off (informal)
Nearby words ofbadger
- bad-tempered
- baddie
- badge
- badger
- badinage
- badly
- badness
Synonyms of 'badger'
badger
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