Raccoon vs Badger - What's the difference?
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A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor .
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
* 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:
Any mammal of the genus Procyon .
Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
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 nouns the difference between raccoon and badger
is that raccoon is a nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor while badger is a common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and subfamily: Taxideinae (American badger).As a verb badger is
to pester, to annoy persistently.raccoon
English
(wikipedia raccoon)Alternative forms
* racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)Noun
(en noun)- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
Synonyms
* (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), (common raccoon), (North American raccoon), northern raccoonDerived terms
* coon * coon dog * coonhound * (Cozumel raccoon) * crab-eating raccoon * in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age * (pygmy raccoon) * (raccoon butterfly) * (raccoon butterflyfish), * raccoon dog * raccoon eyesbadger
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.