All 3 Uses of
badger
in
Great Expectations
- "I tell you what, young fellow," said she, "I didn't bring you up by hand to badger people's lives out.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Which I meantersay," cried Joe, "that if you come into my place bull-baiting and badgering me, come out!†
Chpt 18
- I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.†
Chpt 18 *
Definitions:
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(badger as in: badgered her until she agreed) to nag or bother someone repeatedly -- typically to repeatedly ask them to do something
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(badger as in: saw a badger) a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws and is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere