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cadgers

cadgers is the plural of cadger.

Meaning of cadger

Noun

cadger (plural cadgers)

  1. (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
    • He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
  2. (Geordie, sometimes) A beggar.
    • A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field

Words that rhyme with cadgers

Questions about cadgers

What is cadgers the plural of?
Cadgers is the plural of cadger.

Words near cadgers in the dictionary

  1. Cadfarch
  2. cadge
  3. cadged
  4. Cadgee
  5. cadger
  6. cadgers
  7. cadges
  8. cadgily
  9. cadgin
  10. cadginess
  11. cadging

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