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badded

badded is the simple past and past participle of bad.

Meaning of bad

Verb

bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)

  1. (UK, dialectal, slang, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
    • A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly...1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346

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Phrases with badded

Questions about badded

What is badded the simple past and past participle of?
Badded is the simple past and past participle of bad.

Words near badded in the dictionary

  1. Badcock
  2. Badcoe
  3. Baddaginnie
  4. Baddams
  5. Baddeck
  6. badded
  7. badded up
  8. Baddeley
  9. baddeleyite
  10. baddeleyites
  11. Baddeleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: badded (page history and authors); bad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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