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
She might have her passing caprices and her loose and flippant mode of talking, but she wasn't going to be a failure, a cadger, a parasite, a "fallen" woman.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
Jim: Do you take me for a cangling cadger, to haggle ...
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
A beggar is not etymologically one who begs, or a cadger one who cadges.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
"Man, ye're a cadger of the most appallin' descreeption," said Tam severely.
From Tam o' the Scoots by Edgar Wallace
