badger
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English bageard (“‘marked by a badge’”), from bage (“‘badge’”), from Anglo-Norman bage (“‘emblem’”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze.
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badger (plural badgers)
- A common name for 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 of Wisconsin.
- (plural, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
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- (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite
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mammal
native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite
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- Collective nouns
[edit] Verb
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to badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)
- To pester, to annoy persistently.
- He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
- (British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
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- See also Wikisaurus:flatulate
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pester
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fart — see fart
[edit] Etymology 2
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badger (plural badgers)
- A person who makes badges.