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Cadger

noun
1.
Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free).  Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger.





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"Cadger" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature; and this very plainly appeared in two townsmen of ours, of whom I purpose briefly to entertain you. For that the one, who was called Messer Forese da Rabatta, though little of person and misshapen, with a flat camoys face, that had been an eyesore on the shoulders of the foulest cadger in Florence, was yet of such excellence in the interpretation of the laws, that he was of many men of worth reputed a very treasury of civil right; whilst the other, whose name was Giotto, had so excellent a genius that there was nothing of all which Nature, ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
 
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... fences we clear'd, and the roadway we near'd, When three of our troop came to trouble; Like a bird on the wing, or a stone from a sling, Flew Cadger, ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
 
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... indeed, were falling away— Friends who insist on play or pay— And he fear'd at no very distant day To be cut by Lord and by cadger, As one, who has gone, or is going, to smash, For his checks no longer drew the cash, Because, as his comrades explain'd in flash, "He had overdrawn ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
 
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Words linked to "Cadger" :   shnorrer, mendicant, scrounger, moocher, schnorrer, cadge, beggar



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