Cadge

Quick meaning: Cadge is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To tie, fasten.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To tie, fasten.

More Meanings

1. (Geordie) To beg.
2. (US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
3. (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
4. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
5. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
6. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

Example Sentences

Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.

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

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

Word Forms

• cadges
• cadging
• cadgin
• cadged

Synonyms for cadge

Depending on context, synonyms include scrounge, beg, blag, leech, mooch, mump.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grub, sponge, scrounge, mooch, beg, cadew.

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