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   Cadge

   /kaj/

   

   verb

   • 1. ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled): informal British "he eats whenever he can cadge a meal"

   noun

   • 1. a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th century, denoting (in northern English and Scots) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cadger noun

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