badger.
Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
Meaning & usage
Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
A brush made of badger hair.
A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
A person who is very fond of cricket.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Where this word comes from
Unknown Possibly from bagger. "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8.
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