Badger vs Inconvenience - 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.
The quality of being inconvenient.
* Hooker
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
* Tillotson
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to bother; to discomfort
Badger is a related term of inconvenience.
As nouns the difference between badger and inconvenience
is that badger is a native or resident of the american state of wisconsin while inconvenience is the quality of being inconvenient.As a verb inconvenience is
to bother; to discomfort.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
* ----inconvenience
English
Noun
- They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
- Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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