cadge
/kæd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.41 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To beg.
verb
To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
British usage; American usage; Slang
verb
To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?"
- "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 […]"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge."
- "Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: caggen, -
Usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- American usage
- Slang