badger
Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammalsAny member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
» Mice are afraid of badgers.
Мыши боятся барсуков.
Миші бояться борсуків.
Meaning
6 sensesAny member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
Dachs
барсу́кbarsúk
борсу́кborsúk
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
a native or resident of Wisconsin
(slang)A person who is very fond of cricket.
(obsolete)A brush made of badger hair.
(in the plural, obsolete)A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete)An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Examples
31 sentencesMice are afraid of badgers.
Миші бояться борсуків.
ruМыши боятся барсуков.
Tom wouldn't stop badgering me.
Stop badgering me.
deHör auf, mich zu quälen!
There are no badgers in this forest.
У цьому лісі немає борсуків.
ruВ этом лесу нет барсуков.
deIn diesem Wald gibt es keine Dachse.
The badger bit the boy.
Борсук укусив цього хлопця.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the aFrom Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.
Unknown Possibly from bagger. "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8.
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Forms
plural: badgersSynonyms
2 synonyms- a native or resident of Wisconsin:Wisconsinite