a. [f. BADGER sb. + -LY1.] Badger-like; hence, greyish-haired, elderly.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. xliii. 273. When I see those badgerly virgins fond of a parrot, a squirrel, a monkey.
a. [f. BADGER sb. + -LY1.] Badger-like; hence, greyish-haired, elderly.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. xliii. 273. When I see those badgerly virgins fond of a parrot, a squirrel, a monkey.