badger

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • 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.

Noun

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 Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (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, 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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Holonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from badger (noun)
  • American badger (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
  • Asian badger (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
  • badger dog
  • badger game
  • badgerlike
  • Eurasian badger (:Template:llmul)
  • European badger (Meles meles)
  • ferret-badger(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{vern}} with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.) (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
  • hog badger(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{vern}} with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.) (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
  • honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
  • sand badger (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
  • stink badger (Mydaus spp.)
Translations
native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite
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References

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. (British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
fart — see fart

Etymology 2

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

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.
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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English badge.

Pronunciation

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)
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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