badger

badger has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
• v. t.. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
• v. t.. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
• n.. sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
• n.. a native or resident of Wisconsin
• v.. persuade through constant efforts
• v.. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"