badger

See also: Badger

English

WOTD – 7 August 2009

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æd͡ʒə(ɹ)

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. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.

Noun

A Eurasian badger

badger (plural badgers)

2. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
3. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
4. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
5. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
6. (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket.

Synonyms

• (animal): brock
• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite

Holonyms

• (mammal): cete, colony

Derived terms

Terms derived from badger (noun)

• American badger (Taxidea taxus)
• Asian badger (Meles leucurus)
• badgerbrush
• badger dog
• badger game
• badgerhood
• badger-legged
• badgerlike
• badgerly
• Eurasian badger (Meles meles)
• European badger (Meles meles)
• ferret-badger (Melogale)
• hog badger (Arctonyx collaris)
• honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
• Indian badger (Mellivora capensis)
• merit badger
• overdraw the badger
• rock badger (Procavia capensis)
• sand badger (Meles leucurus)
• stink badger, stinking badger (Mydaus spp.)

 

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: ratel (af), das (af)
• Albanian: baldosë (sq) f, vjedull (sq) f, vjedhullë f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: baʼ nteelé, ma' nteelé

• Arabic: غُرَيْر m (ḡurayr)
• Aragonese: taxugo m, taxón m, melón m
• Armenian: գորշուկ (hy) (goršuk), փորսուղ (hy) (pʻorsuġ), իշղար (išġar)
• Asturian: texón (ast) m, melandru (ast) m, melón (ast) m, tesugu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: porsuq (az)
• Bashkir: бурһыҡ (burhıq)
• Basque: azkonar (eu)
• Bats: მაჲჩუ̂ (mayčû)
• Bavarian: Dåchs
• Belarusian: барсу́к m (barsúk)
• Breton: broc'h (br) m
• Bulgarian: я́зовец (bg) m (jázovec)
• Burmese: ခွေးတူဝက်တူ (my) (hkwe:tuwaktu)
• Catalan: teixó (ca) m
• Chechen: дӏама (dˀama)
• Cherokee: ᎢᏃᎵ (inoli)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獾 (zh) (huān)

• Chuvash: пурӑш (purăš)
• Cimbrian: daks m
• Cornish: brogh m
• Czech: jezevec (cs) m
• Danish: grævling (da) c
• Dutch: das (nl) m
• Erzya: борцу (borcu)
• Esperanto: melo (eo)
• Estonian: mäger (et), määr
• Faroese: grevlingur m
• Finnish: mäyrä (fi)
• French: blaireau (fr) m
• Friulian: tac m
• Galician: teixugo (gl) m, porco teixo (gl) m, teixón m
• Georgian: მაჩვი (mačvi)
• German: Dachs (de) m
• Gothic: *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐍃 m (*þahsus)
• Greek: ασβός (el) m (asvós)

  Ancient Greek: τρόχος m (trókhos)

• Hebrew: גִּירִית (he) f (girit)
• Hindi: बिज्जू (hi) m (bijjū)
• Hungarian: borz (hu)
• Hunsrik: Dachs m
• Icelandic: greifingi m
• Ido: daxo (io)
• Indonesian: biul
• Interlingua: taxon
• Irish: broc (ga) m

  Middle Irish: brocc m

• Italian: tasso (it) m
• Japanese: アナグマ (ja) (anaguma), 穴熊 (ja) (あなぐま, anaguma)
• Judeo-Tat: хуьрсек (xyrsek)
• Kalmyk: зорхн (zorxn)
• Karachay Balkar: борсукъ (borsuq)
• Kazakh: борсық (borsyq)
• Khakas: порсых (porsıx) ,dialect: морсых (morsıx)
• Korean: 오소리 (ko) (osori)
• Kumyk: порсукъ (porsuq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kurbeşk (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кашкулак (kaşkulak)
• Ladin: tas ?
• Lakota: ȟoká
• Latin: mēlēs f, taxō (la) m (Late)
• Latvian: āpsis (lv) m
• Laz: მუმჩქვი (mumçkvi)
• Lithuanian: barsukas (lt) m, opšrus m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: please add this translation if you can

  German Low German: Tacks m, Daks

• Macedonian: ја́зовец m (jázovec)
• Malay: bejar
• Manchu: ᡩᠣᡵᡤᠣᠨ (dorgon)
• Manx: broc m
• Maori: pateri
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: нерге (ńerge)

  Western Mari: нергӹ (ńergÿ)

• Mazanderani: گورشکو (gureško), ساتشی (sâtaši)
• Mingrelian: მუნჩქვი (munčkvi)
• Mongolian: дорго (mn) (dorgo)
• Nanai: дорон (doron), оё̄н (ojōn)
• Navajo: nahashchʼidí
• Nepali: रतेल (ratel)
• Norman: blaireau m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grevling (no) m

  Nynorsk: grevling m

• Occitan: tais (oc) m, rabàs (oc) m, taisson (oc) m
• Old English: brocc m
• Omaha-Ponca: qúga
• Ossetian: зыгъа́рӕг (zyǧáræg)
• Persian: گورکن (fa) (gurkan), اشغور (ošğur)
• Plautdietsch: Ieedschwien n
• Polish: borsuk (pl) m, jaźwiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: texugo (pt) m
• Romanian: viezure (ro) m, bursuc (ro) m
• Romansch: tais m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), tes m (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), tass m (Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: барсу́к (ru) m (barsúk)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: mievri

• Sardinian: tassu ?, cane de ribu ?
• Saterland Frisian: taks ?
• Scottish Gaelic: broc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја̏завац m

  Roman: jȁzavac (sh) m

• Seri: ziix hant ctaxoj, xeezej
• Slovak: jazvec (sk) m
• Slovene: jazbec (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jazw m, šwińc m

  Upper Sorbian: šwinc m

• Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)
• Spanish: tejón (es) m
• Sudovian: vobzdus m
• Svan: მინჩქუ̂ (minčkû)
• Swahili: melesi
• Swedish: grävling (sv) c
• Tagalog: tasugo, badyer
• Tajik: қашқалдоқ (qašqaldoq)
• Talysh: порсығ
• Taos: kòlnoʼóna
• Tatar: бурсык (tt) (bursıq)
• Thai: แบดเจอร์ (bɛ́ɛt-jə̂ə)
• Turkish: porsuk (tr)
• Turkmen: torsuk
• Tuvan: морзук (morzuk)
• Udmurt: нарды (nardy)
• Ukrainian: борсу́к (uk) m (borsúk)
• Uyghur: بورسۇق (borsuq)
• Uzbek: boʻrsiq (uz)
• Vietnamese: lửng (vi)
• Volapük: daf (vo)
• Walloon: taesson (wa) m
• Welsh: moch daear (cy) m pl, broch (cy) m, daearfoch (cy) m pl
• West Frisian: das (fy) c
• Yiddish: דאַקס m (daks)
• Zazaki: hermuşık, xermuşık

native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite

See also

• cete
• meline
• sett, set
• Appendix: Animals

Verb

badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)

1. (transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

   Synonyms: bait, hound; see also Thesaurus:pester

   He kept badgering her about her bad habits.

   • 2013 September 17, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay:

     "Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people."

Derived terms

• badgerer

Translations

pester

• Armenian: հետապնդել (hy) (hetapndel), հալածել (hy) (halacel), ջղայնացնել (hy) (ǰġaynacʻnel), հոգին հանել (hy) (hogin hanel), տեռորի տակ պահել (teṙori tak pahel)
• Bulgarian: дразня́ (bg) impf (draznjá), безпоко́я (bg) impf (bezpokója)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糾纏 / 纠缠 (zh) (jiūchán), 困擾 / 困扰 (zh) (kùnrǎo)

• Dutch: voortdurend lastigvallen, steeds zeuren over, voortdurend aandringen
• Finnish: kiusata (fi)
• French: taper sur le système (fr), casser les couilles (fr), emmerder (fr), les briser (fr), beurrer la raie (fr)
• German: belästigen (de), plagen (de), piesacken (de)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (draibjan)
• Greek: ενοχλώ (el) (enochló), παρενοχλώ (el) (parenochló), πειράζω (el) (peirázo)
• Hungarian: piszkál (hu)
• Latin: sollicitō, inrītō, irrītō
• Maori: mamare (with constant questions)
• Russian: дразни́ть (ru) impf (draznítʹ), беспоко́ить (ru) impf (bespokóitʹ), досажда́ть (ru) impf (dosaždátʹ)
• Spanish: fastidiar (es), molestar (es)
• Tok Pisin: bagarapim sindaun bilong

References

• badger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mustelidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Mustelidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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.dʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

badger

1. to use an identity badge

   Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.

   Before you leave the room, you mustn't forget to swipe your badge.

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" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of badger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	badger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	badgeant /ba.dʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		badgé /ba.dʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	badge /badʒ/	badges /badʒ/	badge /badʒ/	badgeons /ba.dʒɔ̃/	badgez /ba.dʒe/	badgent /badʒ/
	imperfect	badgeais /ba.dʒɛ/	badgeais /ba.dʒɛ/	badgeait /ba.dʒɛ/	badgions /badʒ.jɔ̃/	badgiez /badʒ.je/	badgeaient /ba.dʒɛ/
	past historic2	badgeai /ba.dʒe/	badgeas /ba.dʒa/	badgea /ba.dʒa/	badgeâmes /ba.dʒam/	badgeâtes /ba.dʒat/	badgèrent /ba.dʒɛʁ/
	future	badgerai /ba.dʒə.ʁe/	badgeras /ba.dʒə.ʁa/	badgera /ba.dʒə.ʁa/	badgerons /ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/	badgerez /ba.dʒə.ʁe/	badgeront /ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	badgerais /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/	badgerais /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/	badgerait /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/	badgerions /ba.dʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	badgeriez /ba.dʒə.ʁje/	badgeraient /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	badge /badʒ/	badges /badʒ/	badge /badʒ/	badgions /badʒ.jɔ̃/	badgiez /badʒ.je/	badgent /badʒ/
	imperfect2	badgeasse /ba.dʒas/	badgeasses /ba.dʒas/	badgeât /ba.dʒa/	badgeassions /ba.dʒa.sjɔ̃/	badgeassiez /ba.dʒa.sje/	badgeassent /ba.dʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	badge /badʒ/	—	badgeons /ba.dʒɔ̃/	badgez /ba.dʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).