BADGER


Meaning of BADGER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bædʒə(r) ]

( badgers, badgering, badgered)

1.

A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.

N-COUNT

2.

If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions.

She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something...

They kept phoning and writing, badgering me to go back...

Richard’s mother badgered him into taking a Spanish wife.

VERB : V n , V n to-inf , V n into n / -ing

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