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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."





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"Cadger" Quotes from Famous Books



... architect and the children she had borne him, she desired quite as 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 is not actually criminal ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... about her was black—black stockings, black bonnet, black hair, and black kerchief. Poll's occupation was indeed a singular one, and not very creditable to the morals of the day. Her means of living were derived from the employment of child-cadger to the Foundling Hospital of Dublin. In other words, she lived by conveying illegitimate children from the places of their birth to the establishment just mentioned, which has been very properly termed ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton


Words linked to "Cadger" :   moocher, shnorrer, schnorrer, mooch, scrounger, mendicant


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