Cadge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To beg or get by begging.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
  • v. To beg.
  • v. To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince someone to do something they might not normally do.
  • v. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To carry, as a burden.
  • v. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
  • v. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
  • n. A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bind; tie.
  • To bind the edge of.
  • To stuff or fill: as, to cadge the belly.
  • To stuff one's self at another's expense; sponge or live upon another.
  • To carry, especially to carry for sale; hawk.
  • To obtain by begging.
  • To hawk goods, as in a cart or otherwise.
  • To go about begging.
  • n. A round piece of wood on which hawks were carried when exposed for sale.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
  • v. ask for and get free; be a parasite
  • Verb Form
    cadged    cadges    cadging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beg   
    Form
    cadger    codger   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beg    scrounge    bum