cadger

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He has the air of a cadger, and no one pays him heed Finding no soul to come to his relief, he decides to invest at least what he has in his pocket.

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  1. Originally, a carrier; a packman. A cadger to a mill, a carrier, or loader. Ray, Collection of Eng. Words. A cadger is a butcher, miller, or carrier of any other load. Kennett, p. 36. (Halliwell.)
  2. One who carries butter, eggs, poultry, etc., to market from the country; an itinerant huckster or hawker.
  3. A person who gets a living by begging: as, “the gentleman cadger,” Dickens. [Prov. or colloq.]

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  • The only experience that I have with dgn files is with autocad map with which a custom batch converter could be created. cadger, —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • Maria was the daughter of an artist cadger (name of Drello_), friend of the great and seller of their autograph letters, whereby he was astute enough to make a comfortable living. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914
  • Hendry had been to the fish-cadger in the square to get a bervie for Jamie's supper, and Jamie had eaten it, trying to look as if it made him happier. —  A Window in Thrums
  • Ye'll see them i' the mornin' gaen awa' berfit to the skule, an' a seerip piece i' their hand, wi' fient o' hand or face o' them washen, an' their claes as greasy as a cadger's pooch. —  My Man Sandy
  • No one could estimate the aid and comfort that stick gave to the Doctor's visits, but one quite understood the force of the comparison Hillocks once drew, after the Doctor's death, between the coming to his house of the Doctor and a "cry" from his energetic successor under the new régime He 's a hard-workin' body, oor new man, aye rin rinnin', fuss fussin' roond the pairish, an' he 's a pop'lar hand in the pulpit, but it's a puir business a veesit frae him It's juist in an' oot like a cadger buyin' eggs, nae peace an' nae solemnity. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
 

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  1. from cadge + -er.
  2. from cadge + -er; but cf. French cagier, one who carried about falcons and other birds, in a cage, for sale.
 

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