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 are some good friends of mine who could buy up your theatre and you and your miserable little soul at a moment's notice, and to look at them you would think they were cadgers.
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The rooms were filthy; and upon entering them in succession, the women and children commenced in the cadgers' whine to beg.
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I told ye, ye know, that ‘the king, might come in the cadger’s way.’
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There the professional cadger toasted a herring, while his companions cooked scraps of meat or toasted cheese.
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This drunken cadger was a thoroughly bad lot, insolent and cringing, and it seemed evident that he had got round Semyon Ivanovitch in some way.
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