Badgerer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who badgers.
"All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend."
- 2 someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections wordnet
- 3 A dog used in baiting badgers.
"And when the second-best ambition of his life arrived by coach — that notable dog, "Pablo" — if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley, or Shotover, in the black dog- winkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed (as all through the October term she did) at the loss of her finest badgerer."
Example
More examples"All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend."
Etymology
From badger + -er.
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