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badgerer

badgerer noun: one who badgers.

Noun

badgerer (plural badgerers)

  1. One who badgers.
    • All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend.1826, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, page 587
    • Since you've bought this book and intend to make a will, I won't badger you with dire warnings about what would happen if you die without a will. (Anyway, I've never been an effective badgerer.)2006, Denis Clifford, Quick & Legal Will Book, Nolo, →ISBN, page 6
  2. A dog used in baiting badgers.
    • And when the second-best ambition of his life arrived by coach — that notable dog, "Pablo" — if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley, or Shotover, in the black dog- winkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed (as all through the October...1883, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, publ. S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, pg. 417

Forms of badgerer

pluralbadgerers

Origin of badgerer

From badger + -er.

Questions about badgerer

What does badgerer mean?
Badgerer means one who badgers.
What part of speech is badgerer?
Badgerer is a noun.
What is the plural of badgerer?
The plural of badgerer is badgerers.

Words near badgerer in the dictionary

  1. Badger State
  2. Badger Stater
  3. badger-legged
  4. badgerbrush
  5. badgered
  6. badgerer
  7. badgerers
  8. badgerhood
  9. badgering
  10. badgeringly
  11. badgerings

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