cadger
Britishnoun
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a person who cadges
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a pedlar or carrier
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There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be that as it may, however, the cadger and his mate sleep together, mess together, and share each other’s good and bad luck; the most prudent of the two being always the purser.
From Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves by George Cruikshank
Cadger is used in Scottish of an itinerant fish merchant with his goods carried in paniers by a pony— "Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
"Not me," answered the fish cadger, with a grin.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The wicket was at the same time drawn open, and the cadger party passed over and in.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
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