badger

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

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.

Noun [edit]

A badger

badger (plural badgers)

  1. 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).
  2. A native or resident of the American State of Wisconsin.
  3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  4. plural A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
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Holonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from badger (noun)
Translations [edit]
mammal
native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite
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Verb [edit]

badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)

  1. To pester, to annoy persistently.
    He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
  2. (UK, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
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Translations [edit]
pester
fart — see fart

Etymology 2 [edit]

Unknown

Noun [edit]

badger (plural badgers)

  1. (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.
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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English badge

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /badʒe/

Verb [edit]

badger

  1. to use an identity badge
    Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.

Conjugation [edit]

  • 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.
   Conjugation of badger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive badger avoir badgé
gerund en badgeant en ayant badgé
present participle badgeant
past participle badgé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present badge badges badge badgeons badgez badgent
imperfect badgeais badgeais badgeait badgions badgiez badgeaient
past historic1 badgeai badgeas badgea badgeâmes badgeâtes badgèrent
future badgerai badgeras badgera badgerons badgerez badgeront
conditional badgerais badgerais badgerait badgerions badgeriez badgeraient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present badge badges badge badgions badgiez badgent
imperfect1 badgeasse badgeasses badgeât badgeassions badgeassiez badgeassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— badge — badgeons badgez —
1literary tenses
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