badger
See also: Badger
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
Noun
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badger (plural badgers)
- Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
- A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
- (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
- (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
- (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket.
Synonyms
[edit]- (animal): brock
- (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite
Holonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from badger (noun)
- American badger (Taxidea taxus)
- Asian badger (Meles leucurus)
- badgerbrush
- badger dog
- badger game
- badgerhood
- badger-legged
- badgerlike
- badgerly
- Eurasian badger (Meles meles)
- European badger (Meles meles)
- ferret-badger (Melogale)
- hog badger (Arctonyx collaris)
- honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
- Indian badger (Mellivora capensis)
- merit badger
- overdraw the badger
- rock badger (Procavia capensis)
- sand badger (Meles leucurus)
- stink badger, stinking badger (Mydaus spp.)
Translations
[edit]mammal
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native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)
- (transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
- Synonyms: bait, hound; see also Thesaurus:pester
- He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
- 2013 September 17, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay:
- "Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pester
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References
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badger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mustelidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Mustelidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)
Noun
[edit]badger (plural badgers)
- (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.
See also
[edit]- Badger (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]badger
- to use an identity badge
- Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.
- Before you leave the room, you mustn't forget to swipe your badge.
Conjugation
[edit]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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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