Meaning of CADGER
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) |
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| | Synonyms: | | moocher, scrounger |
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| | See Also: | | beggar, mendicant | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cadg"er\, n. [From {Cadge}, v. t., cf. {Codger}.]
1. A packman or itinerant huckster.
2. One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or
Slang] ``The gentleman cadger.'' --Dickens.
\Cadg"er\, n. [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf.
{Cage}.] (Hawking)
One who carries hawks on a cadge.
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| | Related Terms: | | beggar, bum, bummer, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, colporteur, coster, costermonger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, hawker, higgler, hobo, huckster, idle rich, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, peddler, rentiers, schnorrer, scrounger, sidewalk salesman, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, vendor |
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