noun a brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
2. badger ·vt to tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
3. badger ·vt to beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
4. badger ·noun 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.
5. badger ·noun a carnivorous quadruped of the genus meles or of an allied genus. it is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. one species (m. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of europe and asia; another species (taxidea americana / labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of north america. ·see teledu.