badger
意味
- アナグマ
- 〈人〉をうるさく悩ませる
例文
Even a rabbit, if badgered into a corner, will fight back.
ウサギでさえ、いじめられて片隅に追いつめられると、刃向かってくるだろう。
A child who has just learned to talk will badger his parents with "whys" and "whats".
初めて上手に口が利けるようになった子供は「なぜ」とか「なに」とかを連発して両親を悩ますものだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.