cadge
Meaning of cadge
verb
- ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled).
he cadged fivers off old school friends
noun
a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.
early 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th century, denoting (in northern English and Scots) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th century.
Information about cadge
- The plural form of cadge is: cadges.
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Hyphenation of cadge
cadge
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- cadge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cadge synonyms
Meaning mooch:
Meaning schnorr:
Meaning ask for food or money as charity:
Meaning take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it:
Meaning become encrusted or covered with a scab or scabs:
Meaning shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others:
Anagrams of cadge
Words that rhyme with cadge
badge, debadge, rebadge, saccadge, fadge, gadge, Madge, Tallmadge, madge, padge, cradge, dradge, radge, wadge
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