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Cadge   Listen
verb
Cadge  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. cadged; pres. part. cadging)  
1.
To carry, as a burden. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. (Prov.)
3.
To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. (Prov. or Slang, Eng.)






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"Cadge" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ursula girl gets a room in the town for me. I have coached two or three of them at little reading parties. It gets one out of town in autumn: Bloomsbury in August is not very fresh. And at Oxford one can "tout," or "cadge," for a little work. But there are so many ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang

... all at once the mutter merged into a vindictive hiss: "Him with his airs and graces, his fine clothes and greasy manners, putting on the lah-de-dah over them that's stood by him when he hadn't a red and was glad to cadge drinks off spiggoties in hells like ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance



Words linked to "Cadge" :   scrounge, cadger, bum, beg, sponge



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