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Badger   /bˈædʒər/   Listen
noun
Badger  n.  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.)


Badger  n.  
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.
2.
A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
Badger dog. (Zool.) See Dachshund.


verb
Badger  v. t.  (past & past part. badgered; pres. part. badgering)  
1.
To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
2.
To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.





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"Badger" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good horse and experienced rider will select and kill from ten to twelve buffaloes at one heat, but in the case before us, the surface was rocky and full of badger holes. Twenty-three horses and riders were at one moment all sprawling on the ground, one horse gored by a bull, was killed on the spot, two more were disabled by the fall. One rider broke his shoulder blade, another burst his gun, and lost three fingers by the accident, another ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce
... well rubbed off, and allowed to dry, then lightly papered down with fine glass-paper. End-way wood which is of a spongy nature should first have a coat of thin varnish, and when dry well glass-papered off. For applying stain a flat hog-hair tool is the best; and for a softener-down a badger-hair tool is used. For mahogany shades and tints a mottler will be found of service, as will also a soft piece of Turkey sponge. For oak, the usual steel graining-comb is employed for the streaking, and for veining ...
— French Polishing and Enamelling - A Practical Work of Instruction • Richard Bitmead
... you think it putty mean to badger the deakin so't he swore, an' then laugh 'bout it? An' I s'pose you've ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... ma'am, nor anyone like him: but a badger-faced old gentleman who snaps up a word before 'tis ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... of Janet, and soon stood beneath the Baron's Patmos. At a low whistle he observed the veteran peeping out to reconnoitre, like an old badger with his head out of his hole. 'Ye hae come rather early, my good lad,' said he, descending; 'I question if the red-coats hae beat the tattoo yet, and ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott


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