Cadger

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cadger \Cadg"er\, n. [From {Cadge}, v. t., cf. {Codger}.]
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     1. A packman or itinerant huckster.
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     2. One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or


        Slang] "The gentleman cadger." --Dickens.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cadger \Cadg"er\, n. [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf.
     {Cage}.] (Hawking)
     One who carries hawks on a cadge.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cadger
       n : someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
           [syn: {moocher}, {scrounger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "cadger":
     beggar, bum, bummer, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, colporteur,
     coster, costermonger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, hawker,
     higgler, hobo, huckster, idle rich, leisure class, loafer,
     lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mendicant friar,
     mendicant order, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, peddler,
     rentiers, schnorrer, scrounger, sidewalk salesman, spiv, sponger,
     the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, vendor