badgering

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Adjective

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badgering (comparative more badgering, superlative most badgering)

  1. annoying; upsetting

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Verb

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badgering

  1. present participle and gerund of badger

Noun

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badgering (plural badgerings)

  1. The act of one who badgers, pesters, or annoys.
    • 1844, The Quarterly Review, volume 74, page 104:
      Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.

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