Synonyms for badger

Most common

harry · hound · harass · pester

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Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

   He kept badgering her about her bad habits.

2. n. 1

   Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.

Related words

Phrases

honey badger rock badger badger dog stinking badger badger skunk hog badger sand badger

Forms

Plural

badgers → brocks…

Past participle

badgered
e.g. badgered → pestered, harassed, plagued, harried…

Example sentences

• harry Harry is working under the direction of an expert.
• hound Spring over the ground like a hunting hound.
• harass Skura wasn't the only girl that Yanni would harass.
• pester We will pester him with heaps of questions.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

dog¹, bug¹

4 letters

bait¹

5 letters

worry², harry², devil², brock¹, tease¹, annoy², hound¹, beset²

6 letters

bother², plague¹, hector², harass², molest², pester², heckle²

7 letters

torment², barrack², bedevil³

9 letters

persecute³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (worry² = 2 syllables).

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