cadger
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkæd͡ʒɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]cadger (plural cadgers)
- (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
- He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.
- (sometimes Geordie) A beggar.
- 1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field:
- 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 here
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]Cadger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- Michael Quinion (1996–2024) “Cadge”, in World Wide Words.
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