I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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sett
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Much more tricky than knowing if you've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active.
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Occasionally the spoil heap outside a badger sett would reveal a piece of bone or a scrap of corroded armour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bear-baiting/badger-baiting etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Badger victory Wildlife campaigners are celebrating after winning an 18 year fight to protect badgers from badger baiting.
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A dreadful cross for the badger to bear.
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But some patients, especially the badgers can be awkward.
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Every day more and more badgers are being tortured and slaughtered.
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It was through him that Mr Jackson became hooked on watching the badgers in their natural habitat.
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Much more tricky than knowing if you've found a badger sett, is knowing whether or not it is still active.
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Together these add up to good badger country.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did you notice when you were badgering her how she got interested in remembering Pempie and then could leave the room?
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He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the least pretext.
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I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.
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Often the result of one partner badgering the other into making a bit of a show.
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She had badgered her parents into letting her join the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service after her eighteenth birthday.
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Terry kept badgering the guards for magazines and a radio.
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The diva badgers and belittles her Juilliard students, all in the name of perfection.
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When I badgered people, they had to admit that yes, I did look a bit like Eric Cantona.