Badger vs Horse - What's the difference?
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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.
to pester, to annoy persistently.
(British, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
(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.
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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, chapter=5, title= #(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.
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# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
*1962 , , 00:15:20
*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
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To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
As nouns the difference between badger and horse
is that badger is a native or resident of the american state of wisconsin while horse is a poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand or horse can be (variant of basketball).badger
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (native or resident of Wisconsin) WisconsiniteHolonyms
* (mammal) cete, colonyDerived terms
* American badger * European badger * ferret-badger * hog badger * honey badger * stink badgerSee also
* cete * meline * sett, set * (wikipedia) *Verb
- He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
Synonyms
* (to fart)Etymology 2
''(Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)Noun
(en noun)See also
*Anagrams
* ----horse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarseSynonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knightHyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallionDerived terms
* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horseSee also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *Verb
(hors)- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- being better horsed , outrode me
- He horsed himself well.
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- the keeper, horsing a deer
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around * unhorseEtymology 2
Noun
(-)- Alright, mate, got any horse ?