Beaver vs Badger - What's the difference?
beaver | badger |
An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
(coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
The fur of the beaver.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
The lower face-guard of a helmet.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
*:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
*1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
*:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
*:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
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.
As a proper noun beaver
is .As a noun badger is
a native or resident of the american state of wisconsin.beaver
English
(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.Noun
(en-noun)- a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
Derived terms
* American beaver * European beaverSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Alternative forms.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.
