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badger
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)
- 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 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)
- To pester, to annoy persistently; press.
- (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)
- (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
- 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.
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groundhog
English
Alternative forms
- ground-hog
- ground hog
Etymology
ground +? hog
Noun
groundhog (plural groundhogs)
- A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.
- Synonyms: whistle-pig, woodchuck
- (rare) The aardvark.
Derived terms
- Groundhog Day, Groundhog's Day
- groundhogese
- Groundhog Lodge
Translations
Further reading
- groundhog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
groundhog From the web:
- what groundhog day
- what groundhogs eat
- what groundhog is used for groundhog day
- what groundhog see
- what groundhogs do
- what groundhog day means
- what groundhog predicts
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