The difference between Badger and Cete

When used as nouns, badger means any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family mustelidae: melinae (eurasian badgers), mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (american badger), whereas cete means a cetacean.


Badger is also verb with the meaning: to pester, to annoy persistently.

check bellow for the other definitions of Badger and Cete

  1. Badger as a noun:

    Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (American badger).

  2. Badger as a noun:

    A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

  3. Badger as a noun (obsolete):

    A brush made of badger hair.

  4. Badger as a noun (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant):

    A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

  1. Badger as a verb:

    To pester, to annoy persistently.

    Examples:

    "He kept badgering her about her bad habits."

  2. Badger as a verb (British, informal):

    To pass gas; to fart.

  1. Badger as a noun (obsolete):

    An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

  1. Cete as a noun (rare):

    A cetacean.

  1. Cete as a noun (obsolete):

    A company of badgers.

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