English-Thai Dictionary

badger

N สัตว สี่ เท้า มี ขน สีเทา  และ หัว มี ลายเส้น สี ขาว ตัด กับ ขน สีเทา  hedgehog sad-se-thao-mee-kon-see-thao-lae-hua-mee-lai-sen-se-khao-tad-kab-kon-se-thao

 

badger

VT รบกวน  ทำให้ รำคาญ  pester rob-kuan

 

badger into

PHRV รบเร้า ให้  รบเร้า  rob-rao-hai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BADGER

n.In law, a person who is licensed to buy corn in one place and sell it in another, without incurring the penalties of engrossing.

 

BADGER

n.A quadruped of the genus Ursus, of a clumsy make, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. It inhabits the north of Europe and Asia, burrows, is indolent and sleepy, feeds by night on vegetables, and is very fat. Its skin is used for pistol furniture; its flesh makes good bacon, and its hair is used for brushes to soften the shades in painting. The American badger is called the ground hog, and is sometimes white.

 

BADGER-LEGGED

a.Having legs like a badger. Johnson says having legs of unequal length; but, qu. short thick legs.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BADGER

Badg "er, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an old verb badge to lay up provisions to sell again. ]

 

Defn: 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. [Now dialectic, Eng. ]

 

BADGER

Badg "er, n. Etym: [OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + -ard, in reference to the white mark on its forehead. See Badge, n.]

 

1. 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 or Labradorica ) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

 

2. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. Badger dog. (Zoöl.) See Dachshund.

 

BADGER

Badg "er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Badgered (p. pr. & vb. n. Badgering. ]Etym: [For sense 1, see 2d Badger; for 2, see 1st Badger. ]

 

1. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

 

2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

 

BADGERER

BADGERER Badg "er *er, n.

 

1. One who badgers.

 

2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.

 

BADGER GAME

BADGER GAME Badg "er game.

 

Defn: The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant ]

 

BADGERING

BADGERING Badg "er *ing, n.

 

1. The act of one who badgers.

 

2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng. ]

 

BADGER-LEGGED

BADGER-LEGGED Badg "er-legged `, a.

 

Defn: Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.

 

BADGER STATE

BADGER STATE Badger State.

 

Defn: Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

badger

badg er |ˈbajər ˈbæʤər | ▶noun 1 a heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a gray and black coat. [Several genera and species in the family Mustelidae, in particular the Eurasian Meles meles, which has a white head with two black stripes, and the North American Taxidea taxus, with a white stripe on the head. ] 2 (Badger ) informal a native of Wisconsin. ▶verb [ with obj. ] ask (someone ) repeatedly and annoyingly for something; pester: journalists badgered him about the deals | Tom had finally badgered her into going | [ with obj. and infinitive ] : his daughter was always badgering him to let her join. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: perhaps from badge, with reference to its distinctive head markings. The verb sense (late 18th cent. ) originates from the formerly popular sport of badger baiting.

 

badger-baiting

badger-baiting ▶noun [ mass noun ] a sport in which dogs draw a badger from its sett and kill it, illegal in the UK since 1830.

 

Badger State

Badg er State a nickname for the state of Wisconsin 1.

 

Oxford Dictionary

badger

badger |ˈbadʒə | ▶noun a heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a grey and black coat. ●Several genera and species in the family Mustelidae, in particular the Eurasian Meles meles, which has a white head with two black stripes, and the North American Taxidea taxus, with a white stripe on the head. ▶verb [ with obj. ] repeatedly and annoyingly ask (someone ) to do something: journalists badgered him about the deals | Tom had finally badgered her into going. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: perhaps from badge, with reference to its distinctive head markings. The verb sense (late 18th cent. ) originates from the sport of badger-baiting.

 

badger-baiting

badger-baiting ▶noun [ mass noun ] a sport in which dogs draw a badger from its sett and kill it, illegal in the UK since 1830.

 

Badger State

Badger State informal name for Wisconsin 1.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

badger

badger verb stop badgering us: pester, harass, bother, plague, torment, hound, nag, harry, tease, go on at; informal hassle, bug, get on someone's case.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

badger

badger verb let me get on with it, instead of badgering me the whole time: pester, harass, bother, plague, torment, hound, nag, chivvy, harry, keep on at, go on at, harp on at, keep after, importune, annoy, trouble; N. English mither; informal hassle, bug; Austral. informal heavy. WORD LINKS badger boar male sow female cub young sett, earth home cete collective noun Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

badger

badg er /bǽdʒə r /名詞 1 C アナグマ 〘イタチ科の穴居性夜行動物 〙.2 U アナグマの毛皮 ; C アナグマの毛で作ったブラシ .動詞 他動詞 〈人 〉にしつこくせがんで «…するように /…を » させる «into do ing /into » ; «…で » 〈人 〉を悩ませる, 困らせる «with » ; 〈人 〉に «…するように » うるさく言う «to do » ; 小言を言う .B -́ St à te 〖the ～〗アナグマ州 〘米国Wisconsin州の愛称 〙.