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
The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye—caird or cadger.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
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 mean fellow, more properly cadger; one in everybody's mess, but in no one's watch.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
