badger

Etymology 1

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.

noun

1. Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
2. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
3. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
4. (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

verb

1. To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
   He kept badgering her about her bad habits.
   "Yeah? Cool. Just a warning: people are going to badger you about that. It's practically inevitable for gay trans people." 17 September 2013, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 426 - Trans AND Gay

Etymology 2

Unknown (Possibly from "bagger". "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8)

noun

1. (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.