cadge
Etymology
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Etymology
Possibly a corruption of cage, from Old French -.
Pronunciation- IPA: /kæd͡ʒ/
cadge (plural cadges)
Verbcadge (cadges, present participle cadging; simple past and past participle cadged)
- (Geordie) To beg.
- 1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency:
- Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day
- (US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- Synonyms: scrounge, bum, Thesaurus:scrounge
- Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?
- 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:
- They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.
- 1960, Lionel Bart, “Food, Glorious Food,” song from the musical Oliver!
- There’s not a crust, not a crumb can we find,
- can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge […]
- To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
- German: schnorren
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