English-Thai Dictionary

cadge

VI ขอ  beg khor

 

cadge

VT ขอ  beg sponge khor

 

cadge from

PHRV ขอ (โดย ไม่ คิด ว่า จะ คืนให้  จาก  ขอ  cop from kor-jak

 

cadge off

PHRV ขอ (โดย ไม่ คิด ว่า จะ คืนให้  จาก  ขอ  cop from kor-jak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CADGE

v.t.To carry a burden.

 

CADGER

n.One who brings butter, eggs and poultry to the market, from the country; a huckster.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CADGE

Cadge, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Cadged; p. pr. & vb. n. Cadging.]Etym: [Cf. Scot. cache, caich, cadge, to toss, drive, OE. cachen to drive, catch, caggen to bind, or perh. E. cage. Cf. Cadger. ]

 

1. To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Halliwell.

 

2. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. [Prov. ]

 

3. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng. ] Wright.

 

CADGE

Cadge, n. Etym: [Cf. 2d Cadger. ] (Hawking )

 

Defn: A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

 

CADGER

Cadg "er, n. Etym: [From Cadge, v. t., cf. Codger. ]

 

1. A packman or itinerant huckster.

 

2. One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang ] "The gentleman cadger. " Dickens.

 

CADGER

Cadg "er, n. Etym: [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf. Cage. ](Hawking )

 

Defn: One who carries hawks on a cadge.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cadge

cadge |kaj kæʤ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] informal ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled ): he eats whenever he can cadge a meal | [ no obj. ] : they cadge, but timidly. ▶noun Falconry a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. [apparently an alteration of cage, perhaps confused with the dialect verb cadge ‘carry around. ’] PHRASES on the cadge Brit. informal looking for an opportunity to obtain something without paying for it. DERIVATIVES cadg er noun ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the dialect sense ‘carry around ’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th cent. , denoting (in northern English and Scots ) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle, ’ giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

cadge

cadge |kadʒ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] Brit. informal ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled ): he cadged fivers off old school friends. ▶noun Falconry a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. [apparently an alteration of cage, perhaps confused with the dialect verb cadge ‘carry about ’.] PHRASES on the cadge informal looking for an opportunity to obtain something without paying for it. DERIVATIVES cadger noun ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the dialect sense ‘carry about ’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th cent. , denoting (in northern English and Scots ) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle ’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cadge

cadge verb informal can I cadge £5 off you? scrounge, beg, borrow; informal bum, touch someone for, sponge; Brit. informal scab; Scottish informal sorn on someone for; N. Amer. informal mooch; Austral. /NZ informal bludge.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cadge

cadge /kædʒ /動詞 ｟くだけて 時にけなして ｠他動詞 【人に 】〈金 タバコなど 〉をねだる, たかる «from , off » .自動詞 «…を » ねだる «for » .c á dg er 名詞 C たかり屋 , 乞食 （こじき ）.