badger
See also: Badger
English
WOTD – 7 August 2009
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbædʒə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbædʒɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard.
Noun
badger (plural badgers)
- Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
- A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
- (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
- (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
Synonyms
- (animal): brock
- (native or resident of Wisconsin): Wisconsinite
Derived terms
Terms derived from badger (noun)
- American badger (Taxidea taxus)
- Asian badger (Meles leucurus)
- badger dog
- badger game
- badgerlike
- Eurasian badger (:Template:llmul)
- European badger (Meles meles)
- ferret-badger (Melogale)
- hog badger (Arctonyx collaris)
- honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
- sand badger (Meles leucurus)
- stink badger (Mydaus spp.)
Translations
mammal
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native or resident of Wisconsin — see Wisconsinite
References
Verb
badger (third-person singular simple present badgers, present participle badgering, simple past and past participle badgered)
Synonyms
- (to fart): Thesaurus:flatulate
Derived terms
Translations
pester
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fart — see fart
Noun
badger (plural badgers)
- (obsolete) 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.
See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.dʒe/
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written badge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of badger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | badgeant /ba.dʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
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| past participle | badgé /ba.dʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | badger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | badgeant /ba.dʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | badge /badʒ/ |
badges /badʒ/ |
badge /badʒ/ |
badgeons /ba.dʒɔ̃/ |
badgez /ba.dʒe/ |
badgent /badʒ/ |
| imperfect | badgeais /ba.dʒɛ/ |
badgeais /ba.dʒɛ/ |
badgeait /ba.dʒɛ/ |
badgions /badʒ.jɔ̃/ |
badgiez /badʒ.je/ |
badgeaient /ba.dʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | badgeai /ba.dʒe/ |
badgeas /ba.dʒa/ |
badgea /ba.dʒa/ |
badgeâmes /ba.dʒam/ |
badgeâtes /ba.dʒat/ |
badgèrent /ba.dʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | badgerai /ba.dʒə.ʁe/ |
badgeras /ba.dʒə.ʁa/ |
badgera /ba.dʒə.ʁa/ |
badgerons /ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
badgerez /ba.dʒə.ʁe/ |
badgeront /ba.dʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | badgerais /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ |
badgerais /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ |
badgerait /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ |
badgerions /ba.dʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
badgeriez /ba.dʒə.ʁje/ |
badgeraient /ba.dʒə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | badge /badʒ/ |
badges /badʒ/ |
badge /badʒ/ |
badgions /badʒ.jɔ̃/ |
badgiez /badʒ.je/ |
badgent /badʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | badgeasse /ba.dʒas/ |
badgeasses /ba.dʒas/ |
badgeât /ba.dʒa/ |
badgeassions /ba.dʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
badgeassiez /ba.dʒa.sje/ |
badgeassent /ba.dʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | badge /badʒ/ |
— | badgeons /ba.dʒɔ̃/ |
badgez /ba.dʒe/ |
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| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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