Synonyms of the word badger


BADGERBEDEVIL - BELEAGUER - BUG - CRUCIFY - DUN - FRUSTRATE - MUSTELID - MUSTELINE - PERSUADE - PESTER - RAG - TEASE - TORMENT

badger

  • n. A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian…
  • n. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
  • n. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  • n. (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which…
  • v. to pester, to annoy persistently.
  • v. (Britain, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
  • n. (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly…

bedevil

  • v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
  • v. To perplex or bewilder.

beleaguer

  • v. To besiege; to surround with troops.
  • v. To vex, harass, or beset.

bug

  • n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
  • n. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
  • n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
  • n. Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
  • n. (chiefly computing) A problem that needs fixing.
  • n. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it.
  • n. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
  • n. An electronic intercept device.
  • n. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page,…
  • n. (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program…
  • n. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
  • n. A semi-automated telegraph key.
  • n. (obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
  • n. (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
  • n. (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
  • n. (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
  • v. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

crucify

  • v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
  • v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
  • v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

dun

  • n. A brownish grey colour.
  • adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
  • n. (countable) A collector of debts.
  • n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
  • v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
  • v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
  • n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
  • n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
  • n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
  • n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
  • v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
  • v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
  • n. A mound or small hill.
  • interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

frustrate

  • v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
  • v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
  • adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

mustelid

  • n. A carnivorous mammal of the weasel family Mustelidae.

musteline

  • adj. (zoology) Like or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.
  • n. (zoology) Any member of the family Mustelidae.

persuade

  • v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
  • v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

pester

  • v. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.

rag

  • n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
  • n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
  • n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
  • n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
  • n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
  • n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
  • n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
  • n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
  • v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  • v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
  • v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
  • v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
  • v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
  • v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
  • n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
  • n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
  • n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

tease

  • v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
  • v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
  • v. To back-comb.
  • v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
  • v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
  • n. One who teases.
  • n. A single act of teasing.
  • n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

torment

  • n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
  • n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
  • n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
  • v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

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