cadger

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She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist�a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.

From Time Magazine Archive

In such times of insubordination as these, my lord," said Mr Cairns, "when every cadger thinks himself as good as an earl, it is more than desirable that not a single foothold should be lost.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

He abhorred a cadger; he abhorred the very sight of the begging circulars which so appreciably increase the postman's daily burden.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James

Cadger is used in Scottish of an itinerant fish merchant with his goods carried in paniers by a pony— "Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest