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Definition of Cadgers
1. cadger [n] - See also: cadger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadgers
Literary usage of Cadgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1862)
"... abandon the study or the cathedral, to harangue cadgers from the steps of an
omnibus, as though this were the beginning and end of the Church's work. ..."
2. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan (1823)
"... made themselves as affable and jolly as the rest of the motley crew among the
beggars, cadgers, thieves, &c. who at that time infested the Holy Land ! ..."
3. The History of Old Dundee, Narrated Out of the Town Council Register, with by Alexander Maxwell (1884)
"HUCKSTERS, CHAPMEN, AND cadgers. 1502. The dealings of the lesser traders were
strictly regulated. " Na OCT. 5. hucksters within the burgh, ..."
4. East Neuk Chronicles by William Forbes Skene (1905)
"THE SAND cadgers. Where Albion Street Church now stands was the rendezvous in
those days of a race of character now almost as extinct as the dodo—namely, ..."
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