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cadge en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kæd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To tie, fasten.
  2. (Geordie) To beg.
    • 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 1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency:
  3. (UK, US, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
    • They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard. 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:
    • Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?
    • 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 […]

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cadges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cadgin Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cadged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cadged Tense=Past lexicographic
cadging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

codger · on the cadge · cadger

Synonyms

scrounge · mump · blag · sponge · scunge · bum · mooch · bum · leech · scrounge · cadge · wheedle · beg · tap

Translations (30)

ru выманить (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · mi pati (to beg) · hu szerez (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · mi kaimātai (to beg) · hu kunyerál (to beg) · pl wycyganiać (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · pl żebrać (to beg) · pl wykusić (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · cs loudit (to beg) · pl wycyganić (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · hu lejmol (to beg) · pl wyłudzać (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · es suplicar (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · hu legombol (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · de schnorren (to beg) · cs vyloudit (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · bg прося (to beg) · pl wyłudzić (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · es mendigar (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · es gorronear (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · mi pīnono (to beg) · mi pīnono (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · cs somrovat (to beg) · es mangonear (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · cs žebrat (to beg) · mi whakapati (to beg) · hu tarhál (to beg) · nl ritselen (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · mi pīnene (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile) · mi rutu (slang: to obtain something by wit or guile)

cadge en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kæd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Likely a corruption of cage.

Meanings

  1. A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cadges Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (1)

pl rama (falconry: a circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale)

cadge en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kæd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Likely a corruption of cage.

Meanings

  1. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To carry, as a burden.
    • Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting. 1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors:
  3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cadges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cadging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cadged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cadged Tense=Past lexicographic
cadgin Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (2)

pl nieść (to carry hawks) · pl nosić (to carry hawks)