(n.) 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.
(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(2) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(3) Forty-seven badgers were caught from the eight social groups.
(4) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(5) The planned cull had suffered a series of blows recently, including the discovery of up to twice as many badgers in the culling zones than expected, driving up the cost and complexity of the cull.
(6) Field trials found the BCG vaccine reduced the incidence of bovine TB in badgers by 73.8%.
(7) I tried hard not to think of a time hence when I could count every tree in the wood, when the badger sett would be in an open field.
(8) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(9) There was generally avoidance of pasture treated with badger urine up to 14 days old.
(10) Wild animals, particularly badgers, have been implicated as reservoirs of the infection.
(11) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
(12) Badgers need to be trapped before they can be vaccinated, and the process will need to be repeated annually for many years, which makes it extremely expensive to use.
(13) Sera obtained from 2 groups of badgers removed in bovine tuberculosis control operations have been examined for antibodies to 11 species of mycobacteria.
(14) There has certainly been a raft of policy announcements: on a green investment bank , subsidies for domestic renewable energy , electric vehicles , high speed rail , even badgers .
(15) The risk is that it removes relatively few badgers; then the worst case scenario is not just the loss of the risk reduction observed in the RBCT but the possibility of actually increasing the risk to local cattle herds (such as observed in reactively culled areas of the RBCT).
(16) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(17) After the July ruling, which was welcomed by the National Farmers Union, the British Veterinary Association and the British Cattle Veterinary Association, a spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "No one wants to cull badgers but last year bovine TB led to the slaughter of over 26,000 cattle, and to help eradicate the disease it needs to be tackled in badgers."
(18) The relative importance of the two mating periods is reflected in the seasonal pattern of bite wounding in adult male badgers; minor bite wounding in January-March was 2.3 times as frequent as in August-October, and moderate-extensive bite wounding was 3.1 times more frequent.
(19) Serological results obtained in badgers and wild boars also demonstrates the absence of direct or indirect horizontal transmission of the recombinant virus.
(20) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
Fart
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Thom Yorke described the company as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse” last year – the dying corpse being the music industry – while David Byrne suggested that "if artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year".
(2) I mean, there are balloon-popping fetishes and farting.
(3) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
(4) Is it hopelessly old fart-ish to hope exposure that to the horrors described by Buergenthal will remind all of us of the piffling nature of our next household conflagration about who gets to wear which pair of jeans, or whether homework on the weekend really constitutes a hardship – or even, somehow, temper the demand for new electronic equipment?
(5) Thom Yorke called the company "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse" in 2013, telling his peers that "I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing", suggesting that the company is just another (unwanted) middleman in the music industry.
(6) You really can have it all.” A more practical innovation comes from British manufacturer Shreddies, which has developed flatulence-filtering underwear , allowing you to “fart with confidence”.
(7) The Tennyson line chosen for the heart of the Olympic Village – "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" – is, in the context of his poem Ulysses, hardly a feelgood slogan: it's the empty boast of a vainglorious old fart raging against senility.
(8) Peaches is sorry "for any offence caused", although it will presumably be some years before the victims are old enough to have her soz passed on to them – if indeed it came in any more personal form than her begrudgingly farted-out tweet.
(9) • On 7 October, the Radiohead and Atoms for Peace musician Thom Yorke described Spotify as 'the last desperate fart of a dying corpse ' as the company celebrated its fifth birthday.
(10) Or, if you’re nervous about farting around other people, as I am, you can use a YouTube video at home.
(11) "As long as the old farts at the top of the company don't prevent change it's fine," he says.
(12) The internet implodes when a black actor is cast in a role of non-specified ethnicity – highlights include the trolling of 14-year-old Amandla Stenberg, who played Rue in The Hunger Games, and the collective online brain fart that happens if you dare put the words “Idris” and “Bond” in the same sentence.
(13) Radiohead’s Thom Yorke called for a boycott of the service over unfair payment practices, removing all his solo projects from the site and describing it as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse”.
(14) Footage of cattle is a reminder that we could instead be farted into oblivion.
(15) When you first met him, was he a humorous and pompous old fart?
(16) He also took things a bit further with a stronger comment in an interview with Mexican website Sopitas , saying of the music business: "This is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse."
(17) He joked: “The worst piece of legislation ever – so good news, Fugitive Slave Act, you’re finally off the hook!” John Oliver on Trump: 'He dominates the news like a fart dominates a car' Read more Oliver then gave a brief history lesson on the importance of the act, since before it was implemented 49 million people weren’t covered and now more than 20 million people gained health coverage.
(18) I've given this some thought, and I think the only thing more risky than whistling during a live performance is doing armpit farts during a performance.
(19) For and against Spotify sceptics “I think it’s really still up for debate whether this is actual progress, or whether this is taking the word music out of the music industry.” Taylor Swift “To me this isn’t the mainstream, this is is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.
(20) People who know me know that I am not somebody who farts higher than …” he smiled.