cadger
Example Sentences
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There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He abhorred a cadger; he abhorred the very sight of the begging circulars which so appreciably increase the postman's daily burden.
From A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman
A beggar is not etymologically one who begs, or a cadger one who cadges.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
“Enough,” said, or rather thought, Birch, who, after a whispered word with the colossal trooper, gave permission for the cadger party to pass on over the bridge.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
There the professional cadger toasted a herring, while his companions cooked scraps of meat or toasted cheese.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
