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- noun Plural form of
cadge . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cadge .
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Examples
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Thus begins the triangle that is the novel's focus: Ed's start-and-stop relationship with Madeleine and his reluctant friendship with the obnoxious Guy, who cheerfully cadges from Ed with a sense of entitlement from having saved his life.
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He cadges a cigarette from his father, who lights it for him solemnly.
The Spirit Upwelling 2009
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He plays football, protects Willie from bullies, cadges slices of rationed bologna from the bemused butcher and even tries to enlist in the Army.
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In London Society everybody cadges except the millionaires – and they're cadged upon ...
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"And if it comes to that. what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him?"
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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A sixth, scorning to work, earns nothing and gets nothing; in him survives a primitive dislike of labor not yet fully "evoluted out;" he slips through the meshes of civilization to become a "tramp," cadges his food where he can, suns his tattered rags when it is warm and shivers when it is cold, migrating with the birds and reappearing with the flowers of spring.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Stephen Leacock 1906
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To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.
News - chicagotribune.com Globetrotting by Philip Hersh 2012
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But the passers-by from whom he cadges cigarettes know him, and if you know Marshall Willoughby, even in passing, you know he has a home.
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Mark cadges an evening lift to Italy to meet up with his family for a short holiday.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But the passers-by from whom he cadges cigarettes know him, and if you know Marshall Willoughby even in passing, you know he has a home.
The Seattle Times 2011
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