different between badger vs tadger

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

Etymology

From Scots tadger (“penis”). Compare English todger (“penis”).

Noun

tadger (plural tadgers)

1. (Scotland) A penis.
   • 2005, Liz Rettig, My Desperate Love Diary: by Kelly Ann, Corgi Books, UK, page 302,

     G says just the thought of trying to bonk in my house was enough to shrivel his tadger and that he?d rather have sex in Argyle Street in the rush hour than try to do it at my place.

   • 2008, Andrew Melrose, Palace Pier Blues, Lulu, page 70,

     I mean childhood doesn?t last long anyway, by the time you realise you are a child ten years later you?re tugging at yer tadger.

   • 2009, Andy Bell, If Your Feet Are Tired and Weary: A Childhood Memory of a Young Boy Growing Up in the West of Glasgow ... Known Simply to Many as the Land of Temple Scurvy, AuthorHouse, page 129,

     […] we found this very funny and were laughing, sniggering and started washing our tadgers with the soap, copying this guy, the guy took exception to this and started shouting at us.

   • 2011 (2009), Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (translator), Seven Houses in France, page 97,

     ‘But just in case, I'm going a bit farther off,’ he pointed to the solitary teak tree and added: ‘That?s the best place in Yangambi for a piss, but l don?t want to risk him seeing my tadger.’

Synonyms

• (penis): fox and badger (rhyming slang)
• See also Thesaurus:penis

Anagrams

• G-rated, grated, red tag