badger

Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).

A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

A brush made of badger hair.

(in the plural) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

To pester, to annoy persistently; press.

“He kept badgering her about her bad habits.”

To pass gas; to fart.

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.