badger
verb/ˈbædʒər/
Frequency rank: #7,810 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to repeatedly ask or pester someone in an annoying way.
Example sentence
She had to badger her little brother into cleaning his room before their parents came home.
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