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badger

/baj-er/US // ˈbædʒ ər //UK // (ˈbædʒə) //

獾子,獾,獾獾,狗獾

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
    • : the fur of this mammal.
    • : Australian. a wombat.bandicoot.
    • : a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin .
    • : a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us.

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Examples

  • Lynette Clark, a leader of the Alaskan Independence Party, said that she was encouraged by the news of out of the Badger State.

  • The video starts with a close up of Avril, who chants a couple of Japanese phrases with wide, black-lined badger eyes.

  • For Badger-backers, pure dread began to well in their collective stomachs.

  • But I liked what they did with Elliott and Gretchen, the lasers with Badger and Skinny Pete.

  • The Wisconsin Badgers are piloted by Buckingham U. Badger, who goes by Bucky.

  • Marcus and Farringdon's pure badger, two shillings—gilt-edged badger half-a-crown.

  • You get some ladies together and badger them into all sorts of thoughtless, unmeant admissions and call that testimony!

  • Festing braced himself in a vain attempt to hold them, for the trail was half covered with tall grass and broken by badger holes.

  • I gave Gibson the big ambling horse, ‘Badger,’ and we packed the big cob with a pair of water-bags that contained twenty gallons.

  • Gibson was now very sorry he had exchanged ‘Badger’ for the cob, as he found the latter very dull and heavy to get along.