Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bearer or carrier of hawks.
- noun Originally, a carrier; a packman.
- noun One who carries butter, eggs, poultry, etc., to market from the country; an itinerant huckster or hawker.
- noun A person who gets a living by begging: as, “the gentleman cadger,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hawking) One who carries hawks on a cadge.
- noun A packman or itinerant huckster.
- noun Prov. or Slang One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
hawker orpeddler . - noun Geordie A
beggar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home.
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So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger.
Boing Boing 2008
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He was a sharp dresser and smooth talker imbued with the mysterious charm of the confidence man, an expert cadger of handouts from relatives, friends, and total strangers.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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He was a sharp dresser and smooth talker imbued with the mysterious charm of the confidence man, an expert cadger of handouts from relatives, friends, and total strangers.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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See: BEGGAR, LOAF, SAUNTER. cadger: Cadging, the ancient art of imposing upon the generosity of others, is an essential skill for the would-be idler, since poverty is the easiest way to obtain a great deal of free time.
Boing Boing 2008
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“O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?”
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The devious, dishonest, disreputable old cadger that he is.
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A want of application, a restlessness of purpose, a thirsting after porter, a love of all that is roving and cadger – like in nature, shared in common with many other great geniuses, appear to have been his leading characteristics.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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A car thief who hits his first wife so hard that he broke his thumb, Dean is a shiftless alcoholic cadger who dumps three wives over the three years in which the book takes place, leaving his children littered across the landscape.
A Manual to Freedom 2007
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SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout.
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again 2006
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