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badger definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
n. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
v. t. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
v. t. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

Crossword clues for badger

- a heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal
- A nocturnal mammal of the weasel family
- Annoy
- Annoy digger
- Burrowing mammal
- Constantly ask
- Mammal type
- Mammal with a black and white striped face
- Pester
- Pester resident of sett
- Torment a nocturnal mammal