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

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

A beggar is not etymologically one who begs, or a cadger one who cadges.

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

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 Cruikshank, George

A cadger sweeping a crossing fell out with a dustman.

From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert