different between badger vs mongoose

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

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• mungoose (archaic)

Etymology

1690s. Borrowed from Portuguese mangusto, from Marathi ?????? (mu?g?s), from Old Marathi ???????????????????????? (mu?gusa), from Telugu ?????? (mu?gisa). Spelling altered by folk-etymological association with goose. Displaced native Old English n?dreb?ta (literally “snake biter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.?u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??.?us/, /?m??.?us/

Noun

mongoose (plural mongooses or (nonstandard) mongeese)

1. Any of several species of generalist predatory Carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. The Indian mongoose is noted as a predator of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.
2. Any species of Malagasy mongooses; only distantly related to the Herpestidae, these are members of the family Eupleridae; they resemble mongooses in appearance and habits, but have larger ears and ringed tails.

Derived terms

• African mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• Angolan slender mongoose (Galerella flavescens)
• banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)
• Bengal mongoose (Herpestes javanicus palustris)
• black-footed mongoose (Bdeogale nigripes)
• black-legged mongoose (Bdeogale nigripes)
• black mongoose (Galerella nigrata)
• brown-tailed mongoose (Salanoia concolor)
• bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda)
• Cape gray mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta)
• collared mongoose (Herpestes semitorquatus)
• common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
• common mongoose (Herpestes edwardsi)
• crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva)
• dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
• Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• Gambian mongoose (Mungos gambianus)
• Grandidier's mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri)
• Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus)
• Indian gray mongoose/Indian mongoose (Herpestes edwardsi)
• Liberian mongoose (Liberiictis kuhni)
• long-nosed mongoose (Herpestes naso)
• Jackson's mongoose (Bdeogale jacksoni)
• Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus)
• large gray mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
• marsh mongoose (Herpestes javanicus palustris)
• Meller's mongoose (Rhynchogale melleri)
• mongoose bat
• mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz)
• narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata)
• Pousargues's mongoose (Dologale dybowskii)
• ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans)
• ruddy mongoose (Herpestes smithii)
• Selous's mongoose (Paracynictis selousi)
• short-tailed mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus)
• slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea)
• stripe-necked mongoose (Herpestes vitticollis)
• Somalian slender mongoose (Galerella ochracea)
• white-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda)
• yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata)
• zebra mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Translations

Anagrams

• gonosome