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"etymology_text": "From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey.\nThe 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.",
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"ref": "2007, Ross Piper, Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, page 48",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2008, Lee Gutteridge, The South African Bushveld: A Field Guide from the Waterberg, page 97",
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"ref": "2010, Chris McIntyre, Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, page 201",
"text": "Co-operative relationships between mammals and birds are unusual, but the honey badger enjoys two. Its association with the greater honeyguide is well known. This small bird uses a distinctive song to lure the honey badger to a bee′s nest, whereupon it feasts on the grubs after the badger has ransacked the nest and had its fill of honey.\nLess well known is the honey badger′s association with the pale chanting goshawk.",
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"roman": "tēṉ vaḷaikkaraṭi",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "தேன் வளைக்கரடி"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "han-nêe bae-dà-jer",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "ฮันนี่แบดเจอร์"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "bal porsuğu"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "medojid",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "медоїд"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "asalxoʻr"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "lửng mật"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melfroch"
},
{
"code": "wo",
"lang": "Wolof",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"word": "kund"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "Mellivora capensis",
"tags": [
"class-9"
],
"word": "insele"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger"
],
"word": "honey badger"
}
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