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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Badger

/băj'-ẽr/ · Badg·er · IPA /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
01 n. An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in …
  1. 1.
    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.[Now dialectic, Eng.]
02 n. 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 …
  1. 1.
    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 (Meles meles [or] Meles vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea taxus [or] Taxidea Americana [or] Taxidea Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu. Also: brock See: Teledu
  2. 2.
    A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
Phrases & compounds
Badger dog — See Dachshund.
03 v. t. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
imp. & p. p. Badgered; p. pr. & vb. n. Badgering
  1. 1.
    To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
  2. 2.
    To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.