different between tease vs badger

English

Alternative forms

• teaze (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English tesen, from Old English t?san (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan (“to separate, tug, shred”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?z, IPA^(key): /ti?z/
• Homophones: teas, tees
• Rhymes: -i?z

Verb

tease (third-person singular simple present teases, present participle teasing, simple past and past participle teased)

1. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
2. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
3. To back-comb.
4. (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
   • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast ", Toxic Zombie Onslaught

5. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
   • 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     Not by the force of carnal reason, / But indefatigable teasing.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

6. (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
7. (transitive) To entice, tempt.
8. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.

Usage notes

• Tease, in the sense of "make fun of," can refer to cruel statements but also affectionate or harmless ones, which may be taken in good humour by the recipient. By contrast, taunt only refers to cruel statements, as does mock unless qualified (e.g. gently mock).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tease (plural teases)

1. One who teases.
2. A single act of teasing.
3. One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.

   Synonyms: cock tease, cocktease, cockteaser, prickteaser

Translations

Anagrams

• Seeta, setae, setæ

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.