honey badger
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honey badger
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From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey.
The slang sense was inspired by the 2011 viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, for which original narration (including variations of "honey badger don't care") was dubbed over preexisting footage of a honey badger fending off various dangerous situations.
noun honey badgers · honeybadger
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Any member of the species Mellivora capensis of badger-like mustelids native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
Not only is the honey badger fond of hunting and eating venomous snakes and stealing honey from angry bees, it is also disregarding of animals many times its own size. Lions and leopards have been known to kill and eat honey badgers, but on the whole, they will give them a wide berth.
Similar: beejoo, biju, honey weasel, Indian badger, ratel
- A person who displays indifference or disregard for others' opinions. For years, Bitcoin has been called "the honey badger of money," and "antifragile." The "Bitcoin don't care" meme is perhaps most applicable of all right now. Bitcoin simply doesn't care what China does, or what bank CEOs say, or what central bankers think. The only thing Bitcoin cares about, apparen
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noun Mellivora capensis
| Español | ratel, tejón de miel, tasugo melero, tajugo mielero, melandro melifluo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 라텔 ratel, 벌꿀오소리 beolkkurosori |
| 日本語 | ラーテル rāteru |
| 中文 | 蜜獾 mìhuān |
| हिन्दी | बिज्जू bijjū |
| Kiswahili | nyegere |
| Português | ratel, texugo-do-mel |
| Français | ratel, zorille du Cap |
| Deutsch | Honigdachs, Honigdächsin |
| Italiano | tasso del miele, ratele, mellivora |
| Română | bursucul melivor |
| Русский | медое́д medojéd |
| Tiếng Việt | lửng mật |
| العربية | غُرَيْر العَسَل ḡurayr al-ʕasal |
| עברית | גירית הדבש girit hadvash |
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title = {honey badger},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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