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As a noun badger

is a native or resident of the american state of wisconsin.

As a letter w is

the twenty-third letter of the.

As a symbol w is

(label) symbol for tungsten.

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

    * ----

    w

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=v, next=x, image= (wikipedia w)

    Alternative forms

    * vv (obsolete)

    Letter

  • The twenty-third letter of the .
  • The first letter of (l) allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
  • Symbol

    (Voiced labio-velar approximant) (head)
  • voiced labial-velar approximant
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * Turned: * * {{Letter , page=W , NATO=Whiskey , Morse=·–– , Character=W , Braille=? }} Image:Latin W.png, Capital and lowercase versions of W , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter W.png, Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur ----