badger

English

WOTD - 7 August 2009    

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbædʒə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈbædʒɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ædʒə(r)

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.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite

Holonyms

• (mammal): cete, colony

Derived terms

terms derived from badger (noun)

American badger European badger ferret-badger

hog badger honey badger stink badger

Translations

mammal

Afrikaans: ratel Albanian: baldosë (sq) f. Armenian: գորշուկ (hy) (goršuk), փորսուղ (hy) (p’orsuġ), իշղար (hy) (išġar) Azeri: porsuq (az) Basque: azkonar Belarusian: барсук (be) (barsúk) m. Breton: broc'h (br) m. Bulgarian: язовец (bg) (jázovec) m. Catalan: teixó m. Chechen: дIама Cherokee: ᎤᎫᎾ (uguna) Chinese: Mandarin: 獾 (zh) (huān) Croatian: jazavac (hr) m. Czech: jezevec (cs) m. Danish: grævling (da) c. Dutch: das (nl) m. Esperanto: melo (eo) Estonian: mäger, määr Faroese: grevlingur (fo) m. Finnish: mäyrä (fi) French: blaireau (fr) m. Friulian: tac, tas Galician: teixugo m., porco teixo m. Georgian: მაჩვი (ka) (mač’vi) German: Dachs (de) m. Greek: ασβός (el) m. Hebrew: גִּירִית (he) f. Hungarian: borz (hu) Icelandic: greifingi (is) m. Irish: broc (ga) m. Italian: tasso (it) m. Japanese: アナグマ (ja) (anaguma), 穴熊 (ja) (あなぐま, anaguma) Korean: 오소리 (ko) (osori) Kurdish: Kurmanji: kurbeşk

Ladin: tas Lakota: ȟoká Latvian: āpsis m. Lithuanian: barsùkas, opšrùs Lower Sorbian: jazw, šwińc Macedonian: јазовец (mk) (jázovec) m. Manx: broc Mongolian: дорго (mn) (dorgo) Navajo: nahashchʼidí Norwegian: grevling (no) m. Occitan: tais m., rabàs m. Polish: borsuk (pl) m. Portuguese: texugo (pt) m. Romanian: viezure (ro) m., bursuc (ro) m. Romansch: tais Russian: барсук (ru) (barsúk) m. Sami: mievri Sardinian: tassu, cane de ribu Scottish Gaelic: broc m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: jазавац (sh) m. Roman: jazavac (sh) m. Seri: ziix hant ctaxoj, xeezej Slovak: jazvec (sk) m. Slovene: jazbec (sl) m. Spanish: tejón (es) m. Swahili: melesi (sw) Swedish: grävling (sv) c. Taos: kòlno’óna Turkish: porsuk (tr) Ukrainian: борсук (uk) (borsúk) m. Upper Sorbian: šwinc m. Volapük: daf (vo) Welsh: mochyn daear (cy) m., broch (cy) West Frisian: das c.

native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite

See also

• sett, set
• Badger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix: Animals

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (to fart): Wikisaurus:flatulate

Translations

pester

Armenian: հետապնդել (hy) (hetapndel), հալածել (hy) (halaçel), ջղայնացնել (hy) (ǰġaynac’nel), հոգին հանել (hy) (hogin hanel), տեռորի տակ պահել (hy) (teṙori tak pahel) Bulgarian: дразня (bg), безпокоя (bg) Dutch: lastigvallen (nl), plagen (nl) Finnish: kiusata (fi) German: belästigen (de), plagen (de), piesacken (de)

Greek: ταράζω (el), ζαλίζω (el) Hungarian: piszkál (hu) Russian: дразнить (ru) Spanish: fastidiar (es), molestar (es) Tok Pisin: bagarapim sindaun bilong

fart — see fart

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

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.

See also

• Badger (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Badger (person)

Anagrams

• barged, garbed

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French

Etymology

From English badge

Pronunciation

• IPA: /badʒe/

Verb

badger

1. to use an identity badge

   Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.

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.

   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	—
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