different between cadger vs kiddier

English

Etymology

From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæd??(?)/

Noun

cadger (plural cadgers)

1. (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

     He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

2. (sometimes Tyneside) A beggar.
   • 1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field

     A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here

Translations

Related terms

• cadge
• codger

Further reading

• Cadger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Michael Quinion (1996–2021) , “Cadge”, in World Wide Words

Anagrams

• graced

English

Etymology

Compare Old Swedish kyta (“to truck”).

Noun

kiddier (plural kiddiers)

1. (obsolete) A huckster; a cadger.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

2. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A pork butcher.

References

• (pork butcher): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary