How To Use cadger In A Sentence
- 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.
- “O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- 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
- I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- 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
- SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout. Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
- So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
- Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.
- A self-confessed cadger from Dersingham has been given a huge thank you by the personnel for the support she has given to their Kenyan appeal.
- As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer. The Times Literary Supplement
