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cadgecadge /kædʒ/ verb [intransitive, transitive]   cadgeOrigin: 1600-1700 Scottish English cadger ‘carrier, trader’ (15-19 centuries), from cadge ‘to tie’ (14-19 centuries) VERB TABLEcadge |
| Present | I, you, we, they | cadge | | he, she, it | cadges | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | cadged | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have cadged | | he, she, it | has cadged | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had cadged | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will cadge | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have cadged |
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| Present | I | am cadging | | he, she, it | is cadging | | you, we, they | are cadging | | Past | I, he, she, it | was cadging | | you, we, they | were cadging | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been cadging | | he, she, it | has been cadging | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been cadging | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be cadging | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been cadging |
- Sonia is always cadging lifts home and she never offers any money for petrol.
- The two boys moved around the bar, cadging free drinks and cigarettes.
- Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
- Any excuse to cadge a drink.
- He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank.
- I used to hang around there on weekends, cadging handouts and running errands and hustling cabs for the swells.
- Is anybody else thinking of going, especially from the Leeds area so I can cadge a lift.
- Never had enough money, was always cadging.
- Poverty hounded the bishop, so he borrowed and cadged like a Franciscan beggar of old.
- Well, the only thing Mike ever cadged was cigarettes.
to ask for money or food because you do not have any► scrounge to ask someone for food, cigarettes etc especially because you do not have enough money or would prefer not to pay for them: scrounge something off/from: · Nigel scrounged a drink off us before we left.scrounge something: · We managed to scrounge some cigarettes because we had no money left.scrounge: · When I was a kid I never had enough money for the bus, so I had to scrounge. ► cadge British informal to ask someone for something such as food, cigarettes etc because you do not have enough money or would prefer not to pay for them: · Sonia is always cadging lifts home and she never offers any money for petrol.· The two boys moved around the bar, cadging free drinks and cigarettes. ► bum informal to ask someone for something such as food or cigarettes, in a way that annoys or embarrasses people: · I think Steve managed to bum a lift home.bum something off somebody: · He's always bumming drinks off people and it really gets on my nerves. ► mooch off American informal to ask someone for something such as food or cigarettes in a way that annoys or embarrasses people: mooch something/it/them off: · This old guy was trying to mooch a beer off Dave.mooch off somebody: · He never pays for anything - he'd even mooch off his own mother. ► beg also panhandle American to ask people in the street for money or food because you do not have any: · Things got so bad that at one point she thought she'd have to go out and beg.· He just sits there on the street all day, but he doesn't panhandle.beg for: · Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of the supermarket.beg from: · Sad-looking men of all ages beg from tourists at the corner of the square. British English informal to ask someone you know for something such as food, money, or cigarettes, because you do not have any or do not want to paycadge something from/off somebody I cadged a lift from Joanna. |