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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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hector
English
Etymology
From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hect?r or Ancient Greek ????? (Hékt?r), from ????? (hékt?r, “holding fast”), from ????? (ékhein), present active infinitive of ??? (ékh?, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold; to overpower”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?kt?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h?kt?/
- Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
- Hyphenation: hec?tor
Noun
hector (plural hectors)
- Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.
Translations
Verb
hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)
- (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
- Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize
- (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
- Synonym: huff
Alternative forms
- hectour (obsolete, rare)
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- hector in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- Not to be confused with hectare.
Anagrams
- Troche, orchet, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche
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