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Definition of Badger

Badger 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. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain. Related Definitions: Allied, Also, An, And, Animal, Annoy, Another, Applied, As, Badger, Baited, Bargain, Barter, Beat, Bought, Brock, Brush, Burrowing, By, Called, Carnivorous, Cheapen, Commodities, Dealer, Down, Especially, Feet, Food, For, Fore, Formerly, Genus, Grain, Hair, Hawker, Huckster, In, Irritate, Is, It, Itinerant, Licensed, Long, Made, North, Northern, Of, On, One, Or, Persistently, Place, Quadruped, See, Short, Sold, Species, Tease, Teledu, The, Thick, To, Used, When, Who, With, Worry

Badger Quotations The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. Kenneth Grahame I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating. Katie Couric It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. Tom Holt Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. Kenneth Grahame

Badger Translations badger in Afrikaans is ratel badger in Dutch is das badger in French is blaireau badger in German is Dachs badger in Hungarian is borz badger in Italian is tasso badger in Portuguese is texugo

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