English Dictionary

cadge

/kæd͡ʒ/

verb

(Tyneside) To beg. / (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. / To carry hawks and other birds of prey.

He used to cadge cigarettes off his friends.

意味（1）

(Tyneside) To beg.

Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?

意味（2）

(US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.

They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.

意味（3）

To carry hawks and other birds of prey.

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意味（4）

(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.

Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting.

意味（5）

(UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

意味（6）

(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day