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
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)
sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere persuade through constant efforts
If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions. She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something They kept phoning and writing, badgering me to go back Richard's mother badgered him into taking a Spanish wife. an animal which has black and white fur, lives in holes in the ground, and is active at night (Probably from badge; because of the white marks on its head). to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times = pester. Any of eight species of stout-bodied carnivores (family Mustelidae) that possess an anal scent gland, powerful jaws, and large, heavy claws on their forefeet. Most species are brown, black, or gray, with markings on the face or body, and are found in South Asia. Badgers dig to find food and to construct burrows and escape routes. The American badger (Taxidea taxus), the only New World species, lives in the open, dry country of western North America. Badgers feed mostly on small animals, especially rodents. Species may be 9-12 in. (23-30 cm) high and 13-32 in. (33-81 cm) long, excluding the 2-to 10-in. (5- to 23-cm) tail, and may weigh 2-48 lbs (1-22 kg). Badgers can be savage fighters
A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered
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