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.
Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
- noun. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
- transitive verb. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
- transitive verb. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
- noun. sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
- noun. a native or resident of Wisconsin
- verb. persuade through constant efforts
- verb. annoy persistently
"The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
Synonyms
wisconsinite, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in badger:
Common word forms
badgers, badgered, badgerer, badgerly, badgering
Words from these letters
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