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Badgering

Badg′er-ing

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Noun.
1.
The act of one who badgers.
2.
The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
[Prov. Eng.]

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badgering

badgering

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Verb

badgering

  1. present participle of badger

Noun

badgering (plural badgerings)

  1. The act of one who badgers, pesters, or annoys.
    • 1844, The Quarterly Review (volume 74, page 104)
      Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.

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