badger

Etymology 1
From, from , referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to. Displaced earlier, from.

Noun



 * 1) Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family :  (Eurasian badgers),  (ratel or honey badger), and  (American badger).
 * 2) A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
 * 3)  A brush made of badger hair.
 * 4)  A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:, , vjedhullë
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: baʼ nteelé, ma' nteelé
 * Arabic: غُرَيْر
 * Aragonese: taxugo, taxón, melón
 * Armenian:, , իշղար
 * Asturian:, , ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: бурһыҡ
 * Basque:
 * Bats: მაჲჩუ
 * Bavarian: Dåchs
 * Belarusian: барсу́к
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: дӏама
 * Cherokee: ᎢᏃᎵ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: пурӑш
 * Cimbrian: daks
 * Cornish: brogh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: борцу
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, määr
 * Faroese: grevlingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: tac
 * Galician:, , teixón
 * Georgian: მაჩვი
 * German:
 * Gothic: *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: τρόχος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Dachs
 * Icelandic: greifingi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: biul
 * Interlingua: taxon
 * Irish:
 * Middle Irish: brocc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Judeo-Tat: хуьрсек
 * Kalmyk: зорхн
 * Karachay Balkar: борсукъ
 * Kazakh: борсық
 * Khakas: порсых ,dialect: морсых
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: порсукъ
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: кашкулак
 * Ladin: tas
 * Lakota: ȟoká
 * Latin: mēlēs,
 * Latvian:
 * Laz: მუმჩქვი
 * Lithuanian:, opšrus
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon:
 * German Low German: Tacks, Daks
 * Macedonian: ја́зовец
 * Malay: bejar
 * Manchu: ᡩᠣᡵᡤᠣᠨ
 * Manx: broc
 * Maori: pateri
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: нерге
 * Western Mari: нергӹ
 * Mazanderani: گورشکو, ساتشی
 * Mingrelian: მუნჩქვი
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: дорон, оё̄н
 * Navajo: nahashchʼidí
 * Nepali: रतेल
 * Norman: blaireau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: grevling
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Old English: brocc
 * Omaha-Ponca: qúga
 * Ossetian: зыгъа́рӕг
 * Persian:, اشغور
 * Plautdietsch: Ieedschwien
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: tais, tes , tass
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern Sami: mievri
 * Sardinian: tassu, cane de ribu
 * Saterland Frisian: taks
 * Scottish Gaelic: broc
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ја̏завац
 * Roman:
 * Seri: ziix hant ctaxoj, xeezej
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: jazw, šwińc
 * Upper Sorbian: šwinc
 * Southern Altai: борсык
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: vobzdus
 * Svan: მინჩქუ̂
 * Swahili: melesi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tasugo, badyer
 * Tajik: қашқалдоқ
 * Talysh: порсығ
 * Taos: kòlnoʼóna
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: แบดเจอร์
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: torsuk
 * Tuvan: морзук
 * Udmurt: нарды
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: بورسۇق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:, ,
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: דאַקס
 * Zazaki: hermuşık, xermuşık

Verb

 * 1) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

Translations

 * Armenian:, , , , տեռորի տակ պահել
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: voortdurend lastigvallen, steeds zeuren over, voortdurend aandringen
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: sollicitō, inrītō, irrītō
 * Maori: mamare
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tok Pisin: bagarapim sindaun bilong

Etymology 2
(Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to use an identity badge