Where Did the Word Badgered Come from?
*The Children Badgered Their Father into Taking Them to a Movie. the Idiom Comes from the Cruel Sport of Badger Baiting. in This Game, Dogs Were Turned Loose...
*The children badgered their father into taking them to a movie. The idiom comes from the cruel sport of badger baiting. In this game, dogs were turned loose on a badger, a furry animal placed in an empty barrel or a hole.
What does badgered mean in English?
badgered; badgering; badgers. Definition of badger (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb. : to harass or annoy persistently … the mill foreman so taunted the workers, so badgered them and told them that they dared not quit …—
Where does the term badger come from?
The word "badger", originally applied to the European badger (Meles meles), comes from earlier bageard (16th century), presumably referring to the white mark borne like a badge on its forehead.
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