ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Persistently worried, persecuted or pestered.
1787. Caledonian Mercury, 6 Feb., 3/3. The Attorney General says he was never so badgered in all his life.
1794. J. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Rowl. for Oliver, Wks. II. 163. Therefore I tremble for his badger’d bacon.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, Wks. 1869, IV. 59. I’m so pressed and badgered, I don’t know where to turn.
