cadger

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cadger

  • /ˈkæd͡ʒɚ/

Where it comes from

From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) + -er.

noun cadgers

  1. archaic A hawker or peddler. He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.
  2. Geordie, sometimes A beggar. A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here

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