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

There isn't a man in Boveyhayne who is pretending to be a fisherman and is really a cadger on summer visitors.

From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)

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

A beggar is not etymologically one who begs, or a cadger one who cadges.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest