BADGERED

Definition: BADGERED

BADGERED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Badger

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BADGERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Badgered (1916)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Freidman's source tells him that Springsteen was finally badgered into making some tickets available to the whining, self-embarrassing Gores, but insisted they pay market price.
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"BADGERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "BADGERED" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	75%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (past participle)	25%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Language		Translations for "BADGERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� � (Badgering, entwine, kink, Kinked, Kinking). (various references)

German		hetzte (hounded, raced), gehetzt (chevied, rushed, scampered). (various references)

Korean		괴롭히�" (Afflicted, Ailed, Annoyed, bugged, Distressed, Plagued). (various references)

Pig Latin		adgeredbay.(various references)

Spanish		molestado (inflicted, troubled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mustelidae. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"BADGERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: badgear, Bagdade, Bagirov, Bergeret, bladdered, Bogaerde, budgred. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "BADGERED" (pronounced ba"jerd)
3	-j er d	conjured, endangered, injured, majored, perjured, uninjured, wagered.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-g-r"
	-1 letter: bearded, breaded, degrade.
	-2 letters: agreed, badder, badged, badger, barded, barege, barged, bargee, beaded, bedder, deader, dragee, dredge, gadder, garbed, geared, graded.
	-3 letters: adder, agree, ardeb, badge, barde, bared, barge, beard, bread, brede, breed, dared, debar, dread, dreed, eager, eagre, eared, edged, edger, grade, grebe, greed, raged, ragee, readd, reded.
	-4 letters: abed, aged, agee, ager, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, beer, berg, brad, brae, brag, bred, bree, darb, dare, dead, dear, deed, deer, dere, drab, drag, dree, dreg, edge, egad, eger, gaed, garb, gear, geed, grab, grad, gree, rage, read, redd, rede, reed.
	-5 letters: add, age, arb, are, bad, bag, bar, bed, bee, beg, bra, dab, dad, dag, deb, dee, ear, era, ere, erg, gab, gad, gae, gar, ged, gee, rad, rag, reb, red, ree, reg.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-g-r"
	+2 letters: bedraggled, biodegrade, bridgehead, degradable.
	+3 letters: biodegraded, biodegrades, bridgeheads.
	+5 letters: biodegradable, gingerbreaded, nondegradable.
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