cadger
Example Sentences
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She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist�a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cadger is used in Scottish of an itinerant fish merchant with his goods carried in paniers by a pony— "Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Despite the evident hurry the cadger was in, no thwack of stick accompanied the words.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye—caird or cadger.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
