0 past simple and past participle of badger
1 to persuade someone by telling them repeatedly to do something, or to question someone repeatedly:
Stop badgering me - I'll do it when I'm ready.
[ + into + -ing verb ] She's been badgering me into doing some exercise.
[ + to infinitive ] Every time we go into a shop, the kids badger me to buy them sweets.
Then he persistently badgered the ecclesiastical authorities to create a new benefice, with an equal lack of success.
Readers can feel condescended to or badgered.
It has constantly badgered politicians and the public, reminding us of the stark personal facts of fuel poverty.
Again and again, doctors are badgered by patients and by the relatives of patients.
These are perfectly reasonable, sensible, elderly people who are being bullied and badgered.
They respond only after they have been badgered time and again.
The persons concerned were badgered by certain of the national newspapers, although the local newspaper treated them with consideration.
They have been badgered, heckled and hassled by the officers when they come only to visit relatives.
