Difference between Badger and Bug

What is the difference between Badger and Bug?

Badger as a noun is a common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family mustelidae: melinae (eurasian badgers), mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and taxideinae (american badger). while Bug as a noun is an insect of the order hemiptera (the "true bugs").

Badger

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (Ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger). A native or resident of the American State of Wisconsin. A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered. A person who makes badges.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pester, to annoy persistently. To pass gas; to fart.

Example sentence: I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

Bug

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To annoy.To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").A colloquial name for any insect or arachnid that is a pest.Various species of marine crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug.A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing itAn enthusiasm for something; an obsessionAn electronic intercept deviceA small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising itA manually positioned marker in flight instrumentsA semi-automated telegraph key

Example sentence: When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

We hope you now know whether to use Badger or Bug in your sentence.

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