0 past simple and past participle of badger --
1 to persuade someone by telling them repeatedly to do something, or to question someone repeatedly: --
[ + to infinitive ] Every time we go into a shop, the kids badger me to buy them sweets.
[ + into + -ing verb ] She's been badgering me into doing some exercise.
Stop badgering me - I'll do it when I'm ready.
He has badgered me and my predecessor to bring this enhanced service to his city.
We are being badgered from pillar to post with increased petrol charges, overdraft rates at a record level, and all the rest of it.
We have badgered them in season and out of season.
We must not be continually badgered about what happened in 1946 or 1947.
A local authority may have been badgered for years and years by the unfortunate tenant saying that he wants a water-closet in the property.
A man who does not do anything to the satisfaction of a policeman can be badgered and bullied on that plea.
But the small private business man is bullied and badgered by bureaucrats of every sort.
They have been badgered, heckled and hassled by the officers when they come only to visit relatives.
