cadging

Verb (1)

cadge (third-person singular simple present cadges, present participle cadging or cadgin, simple past and past participle cadged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To tie, fasten.
2. (Geordie) To beg.
   • 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 day1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency
3. (UK, US, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
   • Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?

   Synonyms:

   scrounge, bum, beg, blag, leech, mooch, mump, scunge, sponge, tap

Verb (2)

cadge (third-person singular simple present cadges, present participle cadging or cadgin, simple past and past participle cadged)

1. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To carry, as a burden.
   • Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting.1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors
3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

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