Dictionary Entry
badger
badger is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
- 4transitive verb
To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
- 5transitive verb
To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
- 6noun
sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
- 7noun
a native or resident of Wisconsin
Synonyms
- 8verb
persuade through constant efforts
- 9verb
annoy persistently
"The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
Synonyms
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in badger:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for BADGER lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.