cadge

How To Use cadge In A Sentence

• Can I cadge a lift home?
• Minas knew everyone, having cadged dinners and so-called symposia out of most people who had a dining room or a courtyard that lay close to a good wine cellar. See Delphi and Die
• Walked on th 'bleedin' hoof, too, from Macassar to here, an 'cadged at th' Gold Out of Celebes
• A cadger is a carrier who travels between town and country with butter, eggs, and shop-wares or someone who sells things in the street.
• It only took six days to run out of money, and then everyone got together and cadged money off relatives to continue the shoot.
• “O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The sky was beginning to lighten and he should be back on the highway, trying to cadge a lift while he had the strength. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
• Coals he could get from Hall, also occasional half-crowns; these sufficed to pay for his breakfast; a dinner he could generally "cadge," and if he failed to do so, he had long ago learnt to go without. Mike Fletcher A Novel
• Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
• He was a sharp dresser and smooth talker imbued with the mysterious charm of the confidence man, an expert cadger of handouts from relatives, friends, and total strangers. Colossus