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5 lettersPronunciation /kæd͡ʒ/Part of speech verbSorted acdegStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

Word origin

From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).

Used in a sentence

  • Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day
  • Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?
  • They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.

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