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Definition of Cadging
1. cadge [v] - See also: cadge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadging
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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