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As nouns the difference between badger and beg

is that badger is a native or resident of the american state of wisconsin while beg is .

badger

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (American badger).
  • A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
  • (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  • (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
    • Synonyms
    * (native or resident of Wisconsin) Wisconsinite
    Holonyms
    * (mammal) cete, colony
    Derived terms
    * American badger * European badger * ferret-badger * hog badger * honey badger * stink badger
    See also
    * cete * meline * sett, set * (wikipedia) *

    Verb

  • to pester, to annoy persistently.
    • He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
  • (British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
    • Synonyms
    * (to fart)

    Etymology 2

    ''(Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) 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.
    • See also
    *

    Anagrams

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    beg

    English

    (wikipedia beg)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.

    Verb

    (begg)
  • to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
    • He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
  • to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
    • I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
    He begged her to go to the prom with him .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do beg your good will in this case.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
    • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
  • to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • * Harrington
    • Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
    Usage notes
    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Antonyms
    * (raise a question)
    Derived terms
    * beg the question * go begging * beg to differ

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey

    • Etymology 3