badger

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English[edit]

WOTD – 7 August 2009
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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

a Eurasian badger

badger (plural badgers)

  1. 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, Wisconsin.
  3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  4. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
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Terms derived from badger (noun)
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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; to press.
    He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
    • 2013 September 17, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay:
      "Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."
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Etymology 2[edit]

Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)

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]

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)
infinitive simple badger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple badgeant
/ba.dʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle badgé
/ba.dʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present badge
/badʒ/ 		badges
/badʒ/ 		badge
/badʒ/ 		badgeons
/ba.dʒɔ̃/ 		badgez
/ba.dʒe/ 		badgent
/badʒ/
imperfect badgeais
/ba.dʒɛ/ 		badgeais
/ba.dʒɛ/ 		badgeait
/ba.dʒɛ/ 		badgions
/badʒ.jɔ̃/ 		badgiez
/badʒ.je/ 		badgeaient
/ba.dʒɛ/
past historic2 badgeai
/ba.dʒe/ 		badgeas
/ba.dʒa/ 		badgea
/ba.dʒa/ 		badgeâmes
/ba.dʒam/ 		badgeâtes
/ba.dʒat/ 		badgèrent
/ba.dʒɛʁ/
future badgerai
/ba.dʒə.ʁe/ 		badgeras
/ba.dʒə.ʁa/ 		badgera
/ba.dʒə.ʁa/ 		badgerons
/ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/ 		badgerez
/ba.dʒə.ʁe/ 		badgeront
/ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional badgerais
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ 		badgerais
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ 		badgerait
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ 		badgerions
/ba.dʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		badgeriez
/ba.dʒə.ʁje/ 		badgeraient
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present badge
/badʒ/ 		badges
/badʒ/ 		badge
/badʒ/ 		badgions
/badʒ.jɔ̃/ 		badgiez
/badʒ.je/ 		badgent
/badʒ/
imperfect2 badgeasse
/ba.dʒas/ 		badgeasses
/ba.dʒas/ 		badgeât
/ba.dʒa/ 		badgeassions
/ba.dʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		badgeassiez
/ba.dʒa.sje/ 		badgeassent
/ba.dʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — badge
/badʒ/ 		— badgeons
/ba.dʒɔ̃/ 		badgez
/ba.dʒe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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