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badgerly

badgerly adjective: characteristic of, relating to, or befitting a badger.

Adjective

badgerly (comparative more badgerly, superlative most badgerly)

  1. Characteristic of, relating to, or befitting a badger.
    • It seemed to Max a very badgerly thing to do.2012, Bill Willingham, Down the Mysterly River, page 22

Forms of badgerly

comparativemore badgerly
superlativemost badgerly

Origin of badgerly

From badger + -ly.

Questions about badgerly

What does badgerly mean?
Badgerly means characteristic of, relating to, or befitting a badger.
What part of speech is badgerly?
Badgerly is an adjective.

Words near badgerly in the dictionary

  1. badgerhood
  2. badgering
  3. badgeringly
  4. badgerings
  5. badgerlike
  6. badgerly
  7. badgers
  8. badgersona
  9. badgersonas
  10. Badgerys Creek
  11. badges

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