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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)

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.

A Eurasian badger (Meles meles)

badger (plural badgers)

1. Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea.
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 gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
5. (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket.

• (animal): brock

• (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite

• (mammal): cete, colony

• American badger (Taxidea taxus)

• Asian badger (Meles leucurus)

• badgerbrush

• Badger Creek

• 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.)

a kind of mammal

• Afrikaans: ratel (af), das (af)

• Albanian: baldosë (sq) f, vjedull (sq) f, vjedhullë f

• Altai:
  Northern Altai: торокон (torokon), порсук (porsuk)
  Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)

• 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)

• 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

• Frisian:
  Saterland Frisian: taks ?
  West Frisian: das (fy) c

• Friulian: tac m

• Galician: teixugo (gl) m, porco teixo (gl) m, teixón m

• Georgian: მაჩვი (mačvi)

• German: Dachs (de) m
  Bavarian: Dåchs

• 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

• Māori: 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 (ošġur)

• Plautdietsch: Ieedschwien n

• Polish: borsuk (pl) m, jaźwiec (pl) m

• Portuguese: texugo (pt) m

• Romanian: viezure (ro) m, bursuc (ro) m

• Romansh: 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 ?

• Scottish Gaelic: broc m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ја̏завац m
  Latin: 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

• Spanish: tejón (es) m, tasugo m, tajugo m, melandro 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), кырпуны (kyrpuny), барсук (barsuk)

• 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

• Yiddish: דאַקס m (daks)

• Zazaki: hermuşık, xermuşık

• cete

• meline

• sett, set

• Appendix: Animals

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."

• badgerer

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)
• Lakota: pažíb khuwá
• Latin: sollicitō, inrītō, irrītō
• Māori: 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

Unknown Possibly from bagger. "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8.

badger (plural badgers)

1. (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

• Badger (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• barged, garbed

From English badge.

• IPA(key): /ba.dʒe/

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.

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.

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