EGAVE

badger

About 1.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
  2. noun A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
  3. noun A brush made of badger hair.
  4. noun A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
  5. noun A person who is very fond of cricket.
  6. verb To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
    He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
  7. noun An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

Similar words

bug tease beleaguer harass pester skunk weasel sett sucker stalk

Often followed by

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Word family

Badger Badgers badgered badgering badgers

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