badger

See also: Badger

English

WOTD – 7 August 2009

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge +‎ -ard.

Noun

A badger

badger (plural badgers)

  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, Wisconsin.
  3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  4. (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
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Verb

badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)

  1. To pester, to annoy persistently.
    He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
  2. (Britain, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
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  • (to fart): Thesaurus:flatulate
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

badger (plural badgers)

  1. (obsolete) 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.
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French

Etymology

From English badge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.dʒe/

Verb

badger

  1. to use an identity badge
    Avant de quitter la pièce, il ne faudra pas oublier de badger.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written badge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

  Conjugation of badger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive badger avoir badgé
gerund en badgeant en ayant badgé
present participle badgeant
/ba.dʒɑ̃/
past participle badgé
/ba.dʒe/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present badge
/badʒ/		 badges
/badʒ/		 badge
/badʒ/		 badgeons
/ba.dʒɔ̃/		 badgez
/ba.dʒe/		 badgent
/badʒ/
imperfect badgeais
/ba.dʒɛ/		 badgeais
/ba.dʒɛ/		 badgeait
/ba.dʒɛ/		 badgions
/badʒ.jɔ̃/		 badgiez
/badʒ.je/		 badgeaient
/ba.dʒɛ/
past historic1 badgeai
/ba.dʒe/		 badgeas
/ba.dʒa/		 badgea
/ba.dʒa/		 badgeâmes
/ba.dʒam/		 badgeâtes
/ba.dʒat/		 badgèrent
/ba.dʒɛʁ/
future badgerai
/ba.dʒə.ʁe/		 badgeras
/ba.dʒə.ʁa/		 badgera
/ba.dʒə.ʁa/		 badgerons
/ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/		 badgerez
/ba.dʒə.ʁe/		 badgeront
/ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional badgerais
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/		 badgerais
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/		 badgerait
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/		 badgerions
/ba.dʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 badgeriez
/ba.dʒə.ʁje/		 badgeraient
/ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present badge
/badʒ/		 badges
/badʒ/		 badge
/badʒ/		 badgions
/badʒ.jɔ̃/		 badgiez
/badʒ.je/		 badgent
/badʒ/
imperfect1 badgeasse
/ba.dʒas/		 badgeasses
/ba.dʒas/		 badgeât
/ba.dʒa/		 badgeassions
/ba.dʒa.sjɔ̃/		 badgeassiez
/ba.dʒa.sje/		 badgeassent
/ba.dʒas/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— badge
/badʒ/		 — badgeons
/ba.dʒɔ̃/		 badgez
/ba.dʒe/		 —
1literary tenses
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