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Thursday May 22, 2008

cadge \KAJ\, transitive verb:
1. To beg or obtain by begging; to sponge.

intransitive verb:
1. To beg; to sponge.

Another . . . complains of the hard work involved in cadging an invitation to a fancy dinner.
-- James N. Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes

Imagine the Tom his fellow students saw at the University of Iowa -- a slovenly, self-absorbed young man with a high, braying laugh, a tendency to cadge money and a habit of blushing -- and you can see why one remembered him as "a rather unpleasant little person" and another later said that he would have bet on "anyone but Tom" to become a successful playwright.
-- Benedict Nightingale, "The Bard of Failure", New York Times, November 19, 1995

John D. Rockefeller came to him regularly now to beg for dimes and to cadge free rides.
-- William H. Pritchard, "Yossarian Redux", New York Times, September 25, 1994

Cadge derives from Middle English cadgear, "a peddler, a huckster."

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