Badger
noun
- 1.
- (a burrowing night grayish-brown hibernation animal) ជក់ម្យ៉ាង, សត្វស្កា
verb — past tense: badgered ; past participle: badgered ; present participle: badgering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) ~ somebody (into doing something) (follow hotly as dogs do the badger, Badger tease, by persistent questioning. Badger State Wisconsin used as a nickname) ធ្វើឲ្យខ្វល់, ធ្វើឲ្យព្រួយ, ធ្វើឲ្យបារម្ភ, ធ្វើទុក្ខបុកម្នេញរឿយៗ, ធ្វើទុក្ខបុកម្នេញ, ទទូច
Example: The child badgered his mother ail day with question.
Example: She badgered me into doing what she wanted.
ENGLISH MEANING
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.
- 2.
- 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 / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America.
- 3.
- A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
verb — past tense: badgered ; past participle: badgered ; present participle: badgering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
- 1.
- aggravate, annoy, bother, disturb, harass, harry, irritate, molest, nag, pester, plague, provoke, tantalize, taunt, tease, torment, vex, worry
- 1.
- comfort, delight, gratify, please, soothe