All 5 Uses
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Sweet Far Thing
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- She clucks and fusses and badgers Mr. Miller daily.†
Chpt 1 *
- She'll badger me until I tell her the truth.†
Chpt 1
- Now I've got both of them to badger me—Felicity with her snideness and Ann with her disturbing, eerie stare.†
Chpt 1
- "You must tell us simply everything," Felicity insists, and we badger her with questions.†
Chpt 2
- Others, ready for the next party, badger Mademoiselle LeFarge for details of her upcoming wedding.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(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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(2)
(badger as in: saw a badger) a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws and is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Wisconsin is called the Badger State and its residents may be referred to as Badgers.