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cadge
English
Etymology
Possibly a corruption of cage, from Old French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæd?/
- Rhymes: -æd?
Noun
cadge (plural cadges)
- (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Translations
Verb
cadge (third-person singular simple present cadges, present participle cadging or cadgin, simple past and past participle cadged)
- (Tyneside) To beg.
- (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- Synonyms: scrounge, bum; see also Thesaurus:scrounge
- 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 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.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
Translations
Derived terms
- cadger
- codger
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- Michael Quinion (15 January 2005) , “Cadge”, in World Wide Words
Anagrams
- CAGED, caged
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wadge
English
Etymology
A variant of wedge.
Noun
wadge (plural wadges)
- (Ulster) thick slice of bread
Anagrams
- gawed, waged
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