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badger

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Noun

  1. Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora and Taxidea.
  2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
  3. A brush made of badger hair.
  4. A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
  5. A person who is very fond of cricket.
  6. 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.
  7. A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
  8. A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.

Verb

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

Proper noun

  1. A village in Shropshire, England.
  2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  3. A habitational surname from Old English.

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