"Badger" Definition

Definitions for the word "Badger" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Nocturnal burrowing mammal with a black and white striped head. v. Pester, harass. [origin uncertain]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
7. slang
to tease, to annoy by “chaffing.” Suggestive of drawing a badger.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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