Badger vs. Brock

Badgernoun

Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).

Brocknoun

(UK) a male badger.

Badgernoun

A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

Brocknoun

A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.

Badgernoun

(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.

Brocknoun

(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

Badgernoun

A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

Brockverb

To taunt.

Badgernoun

(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.

Brocknoun

A badger.

‘Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock.’;

Badgerverb

To pester, to annoy persistently.

‘He kept badgering her about her bad habits.’;

Brocknoun

A brocket.

Badgerverb

To pass gas; to fart.

Badgernoun

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.

Badgernoun

A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (Meles meles or Meles vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea taxus or Taxidea Americana or Taxidea Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

Badgernoun

A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

Badgerverb

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Badgerverb

To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

Badgernoun

sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

Badgerverb

annoy persistently;

‘The children teased the boy because of his stammer’;

Badgerverb

persuade through constant efforts

Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores mostly in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, polecats, weasels, and ferrets), but also with two species called in the related family Mephitidae (which also includes the skunks). Badgers are a polyphyletic grouping, and are not a natural taxonomic grouping: badgers are united by their squat bodies, adapted for fossorial activity.

‘badgers’;