cadge

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To beg or get by begging.
  2. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: cadge, beg, bum1, mooch, panhandle1
    These verbs mean to ask for or obtain by charity: cadged a meal; begging for change; bum a ride; mooching food; homeless people forced to panhandle.

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  • Then in Mestre you cadge or buy a ride over to the west-side quays. —  The Shadow Of The Lion
  • I even managed to cadge a twenty dollar contribution out of Mr. Volkov, the Eastern Orthodox butcher. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • "I'll cadge Henry's popup while I'm working on it." —  Incubus
  • And that he had known which customers it was safe to cadge for a penny in return for running errands - —  Exile's Honor
  • We can cadge twenty or thirty bucks off him-because, brother, I don't know if you noticed, but we don't have a crying dime between the two of us-but more important, we can get him to write us a really good hardboiled private eye, someone who looks like Bogart and kicks ass like Clint Eastwood. —  The Dark Tower
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps back-formation from obsolete cadger, peddler, from Middle English cadgear.

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  1. from Middle English caggen, cagen, of obscure origin.
  2. English dial., prob. a variant of catch in the sense of ‘take’ (cf. take in the sense of ‘carry’). Catch had formerly a wider range of meaning.
  3. Perhaps a variant of cage.
 

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