cadger
Britishnoun
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a person who cadges
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a pedlar or carrier
Example Sentences
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There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist�a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters.
From Time Magazine Archive
You're a-goin' to be a gentleman, you are—an' I'll have to take to the road by meself and be a poor beast of a cadger again.
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
Despite the evident hurry the cadger was in, no thwack of stick accompanied the words.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Some weeks back, about as dirty an old cadger as it has ever been my fate to encounter, pointed you out to me on the road, and told me the greatest part of your history.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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