| 释义 |
badg·er
I. \ˈbajə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English bagger
1. : a dealer licensed in former times to buy grain in one place and sell it in another
2. now dialect England : an itinerant dealer in commodities used for food : hawker, huckster
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably from badge (I) + -er; from the white mark on its forehead
1.
a.
(1) : any of certain strong sturdily built burrowing mammals constituting two genera (Meles and Taxidea) of the family Mustelidae and being widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, represented in western No. America by a mammal (T. taxus) and in Europe and northern Asia by another (M. meles)
(2) : the pelt or fur of one of these animals
b. : a related animal (as the teledu or ratel)
2. Australia
a. : wombat
b. : bandicoot
3. usually capitalized : wisconsinite — used as a nickname
4. or badgerweed \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ : american pasqueflower
5. : a bundle of sacks tied to the end of a rope and pulled through a line of drain tile as it is laid to clear away loose material
III. transitive verb
(badgered ; badgered ; badgering \-j(ə)riŋ\ ; badgers)
: to harass, pester, or bedevil persistently especially in a manner likely or designed to confuse, annoy, or wear down
< badgered the witness out of her wits >
< the mill foreman … taunted the workers …, badgered them, and told them that they dared not quit — Sinclair Lewis >
Synonyms: see bait |