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单词 cadger
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cadgern.

/ˈkadʒə/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s Scottish cadgear, 1600s– kedger (still dialect, Yorksh., Norfolk, etc.; see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
Etymology: < cadge v. + -er suffix1.
1. A carrier: esp. a species of itinerant dealer who travels with a horse and cart (or formerly with a pack-horse), collecting butter, eggs, poultry, etc., from remote country farms, for disposal in the town, and at the same time supplying the rural districts with small wares from the shops.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant
piepowderc1436
kedger1497
badgera1500
cadger?a1500
chapman?1593
peripateticc1600
haggler1602
higgler1637
mugger1743
truckerc1790
smouch1849
smouse1850
togt-ganger1879
kurveyor1885
smouser1903
machinga1993
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2028 in Poems (1981) 78 Ane cadgear, with capill and with creillis.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 42 The cadgear callis furth his capill wyth crakis waill cant.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 108 The Cadgers..call in the morninge, and if wee have anythinge for them they goe on to Garton and call for it againe as they come backe.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Cade Cadger, a butcher, miller, or carrier of any other load.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 343 The Decoy-men Contract for them all at a certain Rate per Dozen, which the Carryers (Kedgers) are obliged to take off their Hands.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 69 A buck hanging on each side o' his horse, like a cadger carrying calves.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 22 Feb. (1939) 113 An instance of the ‘King's errand lying in the cadger's gate’.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 24 Cadger, a carrier to a country mill, or collector of the corn to grind.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 99 Single horse traffickers, called cadgers, plied between country towns and villages, supplying the inhabitants with salt, fish, earthenware, and articles of clothing, carried in sacks or creels hung across the horse's back.
b.1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1654 A rosinante, borrowed..from some whiskey smuggler or cadger.1843 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 xi. 66 Many..involved in smuggling..under the name of cadgers, carried on..their contraband commerce.
2.
a. An itinerant dealer, a hawker, a street-seller.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar
pedder1166
pedlar1307
dustyfoota1400
tranter1500
hawker1510
jagger?1518
jowter1550
pedder-coffec1550
pedderman1552
petty chapman1553
swadder1567
packman1571
merchant1572
swigman1575
chapman?1593
aginator1623
crier1727
duffer1735
Jew pedlar1743
fogger1800
Jew1803
box wallah1826
packie1832
cadger1840
jolter1841
pack-pedlar1859
knocker1934
doorstepper1976
machinga1993
1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg cclvi He fear'd..To be cut by Lord and by cadger.
1878 W. Black Green Pastures x. 84 A cadger's basket stood on the table.
b. One who goes about begging or getting his living by questionable means.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar
beggara1250
bidder1362
mendinantc1395
mendivaunt1395
craver1406
thigger1424
gangrela1450
mendicant1474
mendiant1483
eremite1495
Lazarus?a1513
truandals1523
bellyterc1540
clapperdudgeon1567
beggar-man1608
maunder1609
maunderer1611
Abraham cove1612
eleemosynary1643
mumpera1652
jockey1685
progger1685
asker1708
thigster1710
prog1828
shooler1830
cadger1851
panhandler1893
Weary Willie1896
schlepper1901
plinger1904
peg-legger1915
tapper1930
clochard1940
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 339/1 A street-seller now-a-days is looked upon as a ‘cadger’, and treated as one.
1861 Sat. Rev. 27 Nov. 537 Home Missions..to the interesting cadgers and thieves of her rookeries.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (E.D.S.) Cadger, a loose character who goes from door to door soliciting assistance.
3. Falconry. A man who carries hawks. (Cf. French cagier ‘celui qui porte les faucons à vendre’ Littré; also cadge n.1) Apparently only modern in English.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconer > [noun] > carrier of hawks
cadger1834
1834 M. Edgeworth Helen II. i. 14 The German cadgers and trainers who had been engaged.

Compounds

cadger-like adj.
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1836–7 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1850) 289/2 A love of all that is roving and cadgerlike in nature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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