单词 | cadger |
释义 | cadgern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 2. a. An itinerant dealer, a hawker, a street-seller. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.?a1500 |
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