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
In such times of insubordination as these, my lord," said Mr Cairns, "when every cadger thinks himself as good as an earl, it is more than desirable that not a single foothold should be lost.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
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 Ernest Weekley
The wicket was at the same time drawn open, and the cadger party passed over and in.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
The beggar and the cadger were no longer sure of a meal.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
