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| chat, to converse |
| to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. |
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- They used to badger badgers, but have upgraded to hot dogs.
- The researchers also found the virus in a ferret badger.
- Judging by the size of the jaw, the animal might have been as large as a badger.
| badger (ˈbædʒə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | ferret badger Compare hog badger any of various stocky omnivorous musteline mammals of the subfamily Melinae, such as Meles meles (Eurasian badger), occurring in Europe, Asia, and North America: order Carnivora (carnivores). They are typically large burrowing animals, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head |
| 2. | honey badger another name for ratel |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to pester or harass |
| [C16: variant of badgeard, probably from | |
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Badger definition
this word is found in Ex. 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34; Num. 4:6, etc. The tabernacle was covered with badgers' skins; the shoes of women were also made of them (Ezek. 16:10). Our translators seem to have been misled by the similarity in sound of the Hebrew _tachash_ and the Latin _taxus_, "a badger." The revisers have correctly substituted "seal skins." The Arabs of the Sinaitic peninsula apply the name _tucash_ to the seals and dugongs which are common in the Red Sea, and the skins of which are largely used as leather and for sandals. Though the badger is common in Palestine, and might occur in the wilderness, its small hide would have been useless as a tent covering. The dugong, very plentiful in the shallow waters on the shores of the Red Sea, is a marine animal from 12 to 30 feet long, something between a whale and a seal, never leaving the water, but very easily caught. It grazes on seaweed, and is known by naturalists as Halicore tabernaculi.
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