badgering

verbnag, bother

Synonyms for badgering

verb nag, bother

Antonyms for badgering

teasing

adjective. pestering

Word Origin & History

1520s, perhaps from bage "badge" (see badge) + -ard "one who carries some action or possesses some quality," suffix related to Middle High German -hart "bold" (see -ard). If so, the central notion is the badge-like white blaze on the animal's forehead (cf. French blaireau "badger," from Old French blarel, from bler "marked with a white spot;" also obsolete Middle English bauson "badger," from Old French bauzan, literally "black-and-white spotted"). But blaze (n.2) was the usual word for this.

An Old English name for the creature was the Celtic borrowing brock; also græg (Middle English grei, grey). In American English, the nickname of inhabitants or natives of Wisconsin (1833).

Example Sentences for badgering

The badgering voice of the sheriff sounded again on his hearing.

In badgering a witness with noisy derision, no barrister of Charles II.

His head was tired from the corporal's badgering, or he would have been brighter.

Coming here to be making an attack on me and badgering me and disparaging me.

She got round me, badgering me, till I didn't know where I was.

But he took no notice, and went on badgering me for more stories.

But Margaret was not to be moved from her good-humor by any amount of badgering.

It took her six years of badgering her protector, from 1819 to 1825, to bring about the eviction.

It was only the other day that you were badgering me with being cool to her.

They cannot break out in revolt at the badgering of the witness.

badgering

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