cadge

present singular third person cadges · participle present cadging · participle present cadgin · participle past cadged · past cadged

1. obsoletetransitiveTo tie, fasten.
2. GeordieTo beg.

   Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day

   1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency

3. UKUSslangTo obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.

   Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?

   2 more examples

   They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.

   1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2

   1960, Lionel Bart, “Food, Glorious Food,” song from the musical Oliver! There’s not a crust, not a crumb can we find, can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge […]

   Synonyms: scrounge, bum, beg, blag, bum, leech, mooch, mump

plural cadges

1. falconryA circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

present singular third person cadges · participle present cadging · participle present cadgin · participle past cadged · past cadged

1. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.

2. ScotlandUKdialectalTo carry, as a burden.

   Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting.

   1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors

3. ScotlandUKdialectalTo hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.