Badger

Noun

 * 1) A common name for 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 of Wisconsin.
 * 3) NaN vulgars A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
 * 4)  A brush made of badger hair.
 * 5)  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.

Verb

 * 1) To pester, to annoy persistently.
 * 2)  To pass gas; to fart.

Adjectives for Badger
belligerent; biting; aggressive; defensive; fierce; hibernating; ungainly; moody.

Verbs for Badger
bait—; snare—; trap—; — abound; — burrows; —charges; —claws; —digs; — dives in; —dwells; —excavates; —flattens out; —growls; —haunts; —hisses; —leaps; —lumbers; —mines; —plunges; —purrs; — retreats; —robs; —rushes; —senses; — seizes; —snarls; —sniffs; —squats.

Thesaurus
aggravate, annoy, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, blackmail, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exact, exasperate, exercise, extort, fash, force from, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, irk, levy blackmail, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, pry loose from, rend, rend from, ride, rile, rip, rip from, roil, ruffle, screw, shake down, snatch from, squeeze, tear from, tease, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, worry, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from

Etymology
From bageard:, from bage:, from  bage:, referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze.

Synonyms

 * Wisconsinite

Holonyms

 * cete, colony

Derived terms

 * American badger
 * European badger
 * ferret-badger


 * hog badger
 * honey badger
 * stink badger