different between tadger vs cadger

English

Etymology

From Scots tadger (“penis”). Compare English todger (“penis”).

Noun

tadger (plural tadgers)

1. (Scotland) A penis.
   • 2005, Liz Rettig, My Desperate Love Diary: by Kelly Ann, Corgi Books, UK, page 302,

     G says just the thought of trying to bonk in my house was enough to shrivel his tadger and that he?d rather have sex in Argyle Street in the rush hour than try to do it at my place.

   • 2008, Andrew Melrose, Palace Pier Blues, Lulu, page 70,

     I mean childhood doesn?t last long anyway, by the time you realise you are a child ten years later you?re tugging at yer tadger.

   • 2009, Andy Bell, If Your Feet Are Tired and Weary: A Childhood Memory of a Young Boy Growing Up in the West of Glasgow ... Known Simply to Many as the Land of Temple Scurvy, AuthorHouse, page 129,

     […] we found this very funny and were laughing, sniggering and started washing our tadgers with the soap, copying this guy, the guy took exception to this and started shouting at us.

   • 2011 (2009), Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (translator), Seven Houses in France, page 97,

     ‘But just in case, I'm going a bit farther off,’ he pointed to the solitary teak tree and added: ‘That?s the best place in Yangambi for a piss, but l don?t want to risk him seeing my tadger.’

Synonyms

• (penis): fox and badger (rhyming slang)
• See also Thesaurus:penis

Anagrams

• G-rated, grated, red tag

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