badgered

2 definitions found

badgered - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Badger \Badg"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Badgered; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Badgering.] [For sense 1, see 2d Badger; for 2, see
     1st Badger.]
     1. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or
        irritate persistently.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
        [1913 Webster]

badgered - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "badgered":
     baited, bedeviled, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled,
     dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled,
     nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, ragged,
     teased, tormented, worried