badger
badger 英 [ˈbædʒə(r)] 美 [ˈbædʒɚ]
n. 獾；獾皮；（大写）獾州人（美国威斯康星州人的别称）；毛鼻袋熊 vt. 纠缠不休；吵着要；烦扰
进行时:badgering 过去式:badgered 过去分词:badgered 第三人称单数:badgers 名词复数:badgers
- Badger is to bother. Persistently. On and on. Without stop. Relentlessly. Over and over. Endlessly. It comes from the name of that chipmunk-like animal that burrows into the ground.
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- n. 獾；獾皮；（大写）獾州人（美国威斯康星州人的别称）；毛鼻袋熊
- vt. 纠缠不休；吵着要；烦扰
- badger (n.) type of low, nocturnal, burrowing, carnivorous animal, 1520s, perhaps from bage "badge" (see badge) + reduced form of -ard "one who carries some action or possesses some quality," suffix related to Middle High German -hart "bold" (see -ard). If so, the central notion is the badge-like white blaze on the animal's forehead (as in French blaireau "badger," from Old French blarel, from bler "marked with a white spot;" also obsolete Middle English bauson "badger," from Old French bauzan, literally "black-and-white spotted"). But blaze (n.2) was the usual word for this.
- badger (v.) "to attack persistently, worry, pester," 1790, from badger (n.), based on the behavior of the dogs in the medieval sport of badger-baiting, still practiced in late 19c. England as an attraction to low public houses. Related: Badgered; badgering.
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