badger

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/ Rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== badger (plural badgers) Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora and Taxidea. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket. ===== Synonyms ===== (animal): brock (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite ===== Holonyms ===== (mammal): cete, colony ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== cete meline sett, set Appendix: Animals ==== Verb ==== badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered) (transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press. Synonyms: bait, hound; see also Thesaurus:pester ===== Derived terms ===== badgerer ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== badger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mustelidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Mustelidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Etymology 2 === Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8) ==== Noun ==== badger (plural badgers) (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. ===== See also ===== Badger (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === barged, garbed == French == === Etymology === From English badge. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.dʒe/ === Verb === badger to use an identity badge ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written badge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.