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noun

Cadger n.

A packman or itinerant huckster.

One who gets his living by trickery or begging. (Prov. or Slang) "The gentleman cadger."

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Etymology of 'Cadger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cadger" Quotes from Famous Books

... whereby he attempts to fulfil it are questionable. He must be credited with the knowledge that his natural abilities are by themselves insufficient to assure him either fame or wealth. But he consoles himself by reflecting that if only impudence, reclame, and a taste for the arts of a cadger, be protected by the hide of a rhinoceros, they are certain to prevail up to a certain point against the humdrum industry of those inferior beings who hamper themselves with considerations of honour ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 • Various

... which no one else will attempt. The first business of life, he is fond of saying, is not to get good, but to do good. Of pleasure, in the usual sense of the term, he knows nothing, and would grudge the expenditure of a sixpence upon himself as long as he knew a cadger or a decayed washerwoman who seemed to have a better claim to it. London is for him not a home, but a battlefield, and his spirit is the spirit of the soldier who dare not ...

— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson

Words linked to "Cadger" : moocher, shnorrer, beggar, cadge