cadger|cadgers in English

noun

['cadg·er || 'kædʒə(r)]

beggar; nagge

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1. At its most general, Cadger meant "carrier," and the verb Cadge meant "to carry." More specifically, the verb meant to go about as a Cadger or peddler.

2. Cadge (plural Cadges) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale

3. Cadge (plural Cadges) (falconry) A circular frame on which Cadgers carry hawks for sale.

4. Gammerstang commented on the word Cadge (verb/noun) - A whining beggar is a Cadger

5. Antonyms for Commensal include parasite, leech, sponge, sponger, moocher, scrounger, mooch, bloodsucker, cadger and drone

6. Persian bureaucracy was still tiny and the Cadgers had embarked on almost no public works.

7. In Scotland a Cadger is an itinerant peddler of fish.--James Maitland's American Slang Dictionary, 1891

8. Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.

9. “Codger” is probably simply a dialect variation of “cadger,” and originally, in the 18th century, meant a stingy, miserly old man

10. Codger Meaning: "old man, odd person;" 1796, "mean, miserly man;" probably a variant of cadger "beggar" (see cadge… See definitions of Codger.

11. Etymologists are pretty sure the verb "Cadge" was created as a back-formation of "Cadger" (which is to say, it was formed by removal of the "-er" suffix)

12. As nouns the difference between beg and Cadge is that beg is a provincial governor under the ottoman empire, a bey while Cadge is (falconry) a circular frame on which Cadgers carry hawks for sale.

13. Cadge (v.) "to beg" (1812), "to get by begging" (1848), of uncertain origin, perhaps a back-formation from Cadger "itinerant dealer with a pack-horse" (mid-15c.), which is perhaps from Middle English Cadge "to fasten, to tie" (late 14c.), which probably is from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse kögur-barn "swaddled child").