The difference between Badger and Pick at
When used as verbs, badger means to pester, to annoy persistently, whereas pick at means to touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.
Badger is also noun with the meaning: any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family mustelidae: melinae (eurasian badgers), mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (american badger).
check bellow for the other definitions of Badger and Pick at
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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).
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Badger as a noun:
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
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Badger as a noun (obsolete):
A brush made of badger hair.
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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.
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Badger as a verb:
To pester, to annoy persistently.
Examples:
"He kept badgering her about her bad habits."
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Badger as a verb (British, informal):
To pass gas; to fart.
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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.
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Pick at as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):
To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.
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Pick at as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):
To pick on or repeatedly criticize (someone).