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cadger
n. beggar; nagger


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Begging
Begging is the practice whereby a person obtains moneyfoodshelter or other things from people they encounter by request. It is also referred to as sponging, spanging (short for "spare-changing") or (in American English) panhandling.In larger cities, it is common to see beggars asking for money, food, or other items. Typically, beggars often beg for spare change equipped with coffee cups, mugs, small boxes, hats, or other items into which monies can be placed and sometimes display signs with messages such as "Help me. I'm homeless."
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cadger
Noun
1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
(synonym) moocher, scrounger
(hypernym) beggar, mendicant
(derivation) schnorr, shnorr, scrounge, cadge


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Cadger
(v. t.)
One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
  
 
(v. t.)
A packman or itinerant huckster.
  
 
(n.)
One who carries hawks on a cadge.
  

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cadger
Synonyms and related words:
beggar, bum, bummer, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, colporteur, coster, costermonger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, hawker, higgler, hobo, huckster, idle rich, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, peddler, rentiers, schnorrer, scrounger, sidewalk salesman, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, vendor
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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