Badger vs. Brock — What's the Difference?

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 "badgers" 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.

A badger.

Any of several carnivorous burrowing mammals of the family Mustelidae, such as Meles meles of Eurasia or Taxidea taxus of North America, having short legs, long claws on the front feet, and a heavy grizzled coat.

(UK) a male badger.

The fur or hair of any of these mammals.

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

Any of several similar mammals, such as the ratel.

(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

To ask or nag (someone) about something in an annoying and persistent way; pester

To taunt.

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

A badger.

A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

A brocket.

(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.

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

(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.

To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Annoy persistently;

Persuade through constant efforts