Antonyms for badgering
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : baj-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbædʒ ər |
Definition of badgering
Origin :- 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).
- verb nag, bother
- The badgering voice of the sheriff sounded again on his hearing.
- Extract from : « Mountain Blood » by Joseph Hergesheimer
- In badgering a witness with noisy derision, no barrister of Charles II.
- Extract from : « A Book About Lawyers » by John Cordy Jeaffreson
- His head was tired from the corporal's badgering, or he would have been brighter.
- Extract from : « Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks » by H. Irving Hancock
- Coming here to be making an attack on me and badgering me and disparaging me.
- Extract from : « The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays » by William B. Yeats
- She got round me, badgering me, till I didn't know where I was.
- Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
- But he took no notice, and went on badgering me for more stories.
- Extract from : « Boycotted » by Talbot Baines Reed
- But Margaret was not to be moved from her good-humor by any amount of badgering.
- Extract from : « A Little Journey in the World » by Charles Dudley Warner
- It took her six years of badgering her protector, from 1819 to 1825, to bring about the eviction.
- Extract from : « She Stands Accused » by Victor MacClure
- It was only the other day that you were badgering me with being cool to her.
- Extract from : « Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir » by Charles Garvice
- They cannot break out in revolt at the badgering of the witness.
- Extract from : « The Man in Court » by Frederic DeWitt Wells
Synonyms for badgering
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