cadger

English

Etymology

From the archaic verb to cadge to carry > derived from Old French.

Noun

cadger (plural cadgers)

1. (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

     He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

2. (sometimes Geordie) A beggar.
   • Charles Dickens

     The gentleman cadger.

See also

• cadge
• codger

Translations

hawker or peddler

• Bulgarian: просяк

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4[1]
• article on cadge at World Wide Words

Anagrams

• graced