English Dictionary

Definition of “cadger”

cadger

= scrounger, parasite, beggar, leech, hanger-on, freeloader, sponger, bloodsucker, quandong

A cadger was a pedlar before the word came to mean a moocher, and the pedlars used to enter the village over the brig.

Glasgow Herald (2001)

He had gained a reputation as a terrible cadger of tobacco, which was becoming increasingly precious as personal stocks started to run low.

Oliver Poole BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (2003)

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