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Word: Cadge
Speech Type: Verb
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
kadʒ
ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled)
Short Definition:ask for or obtain
Examples:- he cadged fivers off old school friends
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