different between radge vs cadge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Etymology 1

Dialectal variant of rage.

Adjective

radge (comparative more radge, superlative most radge)

1. (Tyneside, Scotland, Yorkshire) Violent or crazy.

   That fight last night was radge

2. (Tyneside, Gosforth) amazing or stupendous.

   Them burgers in the Brandling Villa are pure radge

Noun

radge (plural radges)

1. (Tyneside, Scotland, Yorkshire) A fit of rage.

   He hoyed a propa radge when a telt him

Verb

radge (third-person singular simple present radges, present participle radgin, simple past and past participle radged)

1. (Tyneside) To throw a fit of rage.

Derived terms

• radgepacket
• radgie

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Etymology 2

Noun

radge (plural radges)

1. (Britain, dialect) Alternative form of rodge (“grey duck”)

Anagrams

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, garde, grade, raged

English

Etymology

Possibly a corruption of cage, from Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Noun

cadge (plural cadges)

1. (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)

1. (Tyneside) To beg.

2. (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 […]

3. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.

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

5. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
6. (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