honeybadger

plural honeybadgers

1. alternativeAlternative form of honey badger.

   There were two major projects I was expected to throw myself into with the zeal of a cornered honeybadger.

   2006, Donald Bain, Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer′s Life, page 150

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   The Africans have often mentioned to me that a honeybadger (shidzidzi) when cornered, will stand his ground against any living thing and give a good account of himself into the bargain.

   1984, Gus Adendorff, Hilary Rennie, Wild Company, page 51

   ‘Don′t any of you come sneaking around or you′ll feel the size of my fist and a length of sjambok across your bums, ja,’ he shouted, shaking fist and whip; then charged down the boards with the look of an angry honeybadger so that the fisherfolk scattered like gulls.

   1990, Mike Nicol, The Powers That Be, page 58