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 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

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

The beggar and the cadger were no longer sure of a meal.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Stepping out into the middle of the causeway, he confronted the cadger party, and brought it to a stop, with the interrogation: “Whence come you, my worthy people?”

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne