| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To beg, solicit, ask, plead or pray.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb cadge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cadge) | 1. Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling.[Wordnet]. 2. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.[Wordnet]. 3. To carry, as a burden.[Websters]. 4. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.[Websters]. 5. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: cadging, cadged, cadges, cadger, cadgers, cadgingly and cadgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CADGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1853. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cadge
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Slang in 1811 | CADGE. To beg. Cadge the swells; beg of the gentlemen. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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