meaning of badger
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.
2. 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.
3. A brush made of badgers hair, used by artists.
4. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
5. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Related Words
badger | badger-legged | badgered | badgerer | badgering |
