cadger
Example Sentences
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There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He never kept that event a secret; and, on such occasions, what could any honest-hearted cadger do, but offer their pouch to the willing old lad?
From Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves by George Cruikshank
It's juist in an' oot like a cadger buyin' eggs, nae peace an' nae solemnity.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
And, ah! the set upon his phiz At meals defies expression; For I confess that Rover is A cadger by profession.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
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 James Runciman
