Definition of Cadging

1. Verb. (present participle of cadge) ¹

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Definition of Cadging

1. cadge [v] - See also: cadge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadging

cadet
cadet blue
cadets
cadetship
cadetships
cadette
cadge
cadged
cadger
cadgers
cadges
cadgier
cadgiest
cadgin
cadginess
cadging (current term)
cadgy
cadherin
cadherins
cadi
cadie
cadies
cadilesker
cadileskers
cadinene
cadis
cadmian
cadmic
cadmiferous
cadmium

Literary usage of Cadging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"cadging, verbal subs, (common). — Begging, frequently eked out l»y petty ... three limes the wages of an honest mechanic by the simple process Of cadging. ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"See cadging». Cadger, a carrier to a country mUl, being a collector of ... To ' go cadging about,' seeking from place to place, as a dinner- hunter does. ..."

3. A History of Egypt by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Joseph Grafton Milne, Stanley Lane-Poole, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1905)
"Un. " Not so, this is not a cadging voyage, shame on those around who say so. There is not a ship on the sea which does not belong to Amen ; the sea is his ..."

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