Badgerer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Badgerer is a noun meaning One who badgers.
Meaning
One who badgers.
More Meanings
- A dog used in baiting badgers.
Example Sentences
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.
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.)
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 term she did) at the loss of her finest badgerer.
Word Forms
- badgerers
Synonyms for badgerer
Depending on context, synonyms include heckler.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include heckler, badgering, bawson, badmouther, bugger, bickerer.
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