different between badger vs browbeat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæd??/
• Rhymes: -æd??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge +? -ard.

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

1. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
4. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

Synonyms

• (animal): brock
• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite

Holonyms

• (mammal): cete, colony

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cete
• meline
• sett, set
• Appendix: Animals

References

• badger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mustelidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mustelidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Verb

badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)

1. To pester, to annoy persistently; press.

2. (Britain, slang) To pass gas; to fart. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (to fart): Thesaurus:flatulate

Derived terms

• badgerer

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

1. (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

• Badger (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• barged, garbed

French

Etymology

From English badge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.d?e/

Verb

badger

1. to use an identity badge

   Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.

Conjugation

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” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

English

Alternative forms

• brow-beat

Etymology

brow +? beat

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?b?a?.bi?t/

Verb

browbeat (third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten)

1. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

   Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.

Synonyms

• (to bully in an intimidating way): bully, cow, domineer, intimidate

Related terms

• browbeater

Translations

References

• browbeat in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• browbeat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.