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any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
the fur of this mammal.
Australian.

a wombat.
bandicoot (def 2).

(initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin (the Badger State) (used as a nickname).
a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag:
I had to badger him into coming with us.
Contemporary Examples

At that time Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were badgering her about legislating from the bench.
Michael Tomasky on the GOP’s Hypocrisy About Activist Judges Michael Tomasky March 20, 2012

CNN’s John King: He was so annoying and such a badgering presence on stage that I wondered if he was running for president too.
At Last, Some GOP Contenders Matt Latimer June 13, 2011

Historical Examples

But he took no notice, and went on badgering me for more stories.
Boycotted Talbot Baines Reed

Coming here to be making an attack on me and badgering me and disparaging me.
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays William B. Yeats

He had spent the better part of six weeks in badgering and bullying Sir Peter’s pet candidate.
The Tysons May Sinclair

She got round me, badgering me, till I didn’t know where I was.
Orley Farm Anthony Trollope

From this notion, perhaps, comes the popular belief that dogs may be thrown into hydrophobia by teasing and badgering them.
The American Language Henry L. Mencken

But Margaret was not to be moved from her good-humor by any amount of badgering.
A Little Journey in the World Charles Dudley Warner

An act of 1844 abolished the offence of badgering, and repealed the statutes passed in relation to it.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 Various

It took her six years of badgering her protector, from 1819 to 1825, to bring about the eviction.
She Stands Accused Victor MacClure

noun
any of various stocky omnivorous musteline mammals of the subfamily Melinae, such as Meles meles (Eurasian badger), occurring in Europe, Asia, and North America: order Carnivora (carnivores). They are typically large burrowing animals, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head Compare ferret badger, hog badger
honey badger, another name for ratel
verb
(transitive) to pester or harass
n.

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).
v.

1790, from badger (n.), based on the behavior of the dogs in the medieval sport of badger-baiting, still practiced in 18c. England. Related: Badgered; badgering.

this word is found in Ex. 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34; Num. 4:6, etc. The tabernacle was covered with badgers’ skins; the shoes of women were also made of them (Ezek. 16:10). Our translators seem to have been misled by the similarity in sound of the Hebrew _tachash_ and the Latin _taxus_, “a badger.” The revisers have correctly substituted “seal skins.” The Arabs of the Sinaitic peninsula apply the name _tucash_ to the seals and dugongs which are common in the Red Sea, and the skins of which are largely used as leather and for sandals. Though the badger is common in Palestine, and might occur in the wilderness, its small hide would have been useless as a tent covering. The dugong, very plentiful in the shallow waters on the shores of the Red Sea, is a marine animal from 12 to 30 feet long, something between a whale and a seal, never leaving the water, but very easily caught. It grazes on seaweed, and is known by naturalists as Halicore tabernaculi.