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

Now I know why, having got the information from our cadger friends.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

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

A mean fellow, more properly cadger; one in everybody's mess, but in no one's watch.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir