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Cadger   Listen
noun
Cadger  n.  
1.
A packman or itinerant huckster.
2.
One who gets his living by trickery or begging. (Prov. or Slang) "The gentleman cadger."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Cadger" Quotes from Famous Books



... twelve or twenty little groups of men in the square, which was lit by a flare of oil suspended over a cadger's cart. Now and again a staid young woman passed through the square with a basket on her arm, and if she had lingered long enough to give them time, some of the idlers would have addressed her. As it was, they gazed after her, and then ...
— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie
... passionately to be self-supporting, to earn a sufficient income of her own, to be dependent on no one. 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. She fully realized that in England no woman has fallen who is self-supporting, whose income meets her expenses and who pays her way. Given those guarantees, all else that she does which ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston


Words linked to "Cadger" :   mooch, scrounger, beggar, shnorrer, cadge


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