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Definition of cadger in English English dictionary
- A beggar
- A hawker or peddler
- someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
- {i} beggar; nagger
- One who carries hawks on a cadge
- A packman or itinerant huckster
- One who gets his living by trickery or begging
- cadge
- To beg
Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?.
- cadge
- To carry hawks and other birds of prey
- cadge
- obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends"
- cadge
- \KAJ\, transitive verb: To beg or obtain by begging; to sponge
- cadge
- A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale
- cadge
- {i} donation to a beggar
- cadge
- To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg
- cadge
- - To deliver supplies usually with a cadge team on a cadge road in the bush
- cadge
- To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince someone to do something they might not normally do
- cadge
- A wooden frame perch which can be carried with shoulder straps for travelling trained birds - this is probably where the name 'golf caddy' came from Or a wooden box with padded top to use to travel birds
- cadge
- To carry, as a burden
- cadge
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- cadge
- To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc
- cadge
- {f} beg for money; nag
- cadge
- A frame for carrying several birds at once
- cadge
- If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it. Can I cadge a cigarette? He could cadge a ride from somebody. = scrounge. to ask someone you know for something such as food, money, or cigarettes, because you do not have any or do not want to pay cadge sth from/off sb (cadger (15-19 centuries), from cadge (14-19 centuries))
- cadgers
- plural of cadger
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Hyphenation
cadg·erPronunciation
Etymology
[ kaj ] (verb.) circa 1812. From the archaic verb to cadge to carry > derived from Old French.Resimler
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