Badgers

1. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
3. A brush made of badger hair.
4. (in the plural) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

1. To pester, to annoy persistently; press.

   He kept badgering her about her bad habits.

2. To pass gas; to fart.

noun

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.