cadge

Cadge is defined as to get something by begging for it.

(verb)

An example of to cadge is to get dinner by asking people entering a restaurant to buy you something.

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See cadge in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb cadged, cadging

to beg or get by begging; sponge

Origin: < ?

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See cadge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intr. & tr.v. cadged cadged, cadg·ing, cadg·es
To beg or get by begging.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps back-formation from obsolete cadger, peddler

Origin: , from Middle English cadgear

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Related Forms:

  • cadgˈer noun

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