(v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kerouac and his friends were still restlessly hitch-hiking across the continent, cadging drinks and borrowing money for a joint, while Carr quietly pursued a career that lasted for more than four decades.
(2) High rail (and bus) fares at peak times add to social exclusion, by barring poorer people from using trains and forcing them into dependence on cars, either by running cars they can't really afford or by cadging lifts from family, friends and neighbours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 7.40pm BST 7.20pm BST Obama camp hits Romney over '47%' comments The Obama campaign has produced a web video hitting Romney for dismissing 47% of Americans as craven spongiforms just looking to cadge the next handout from the producing class.
(4) Or they can lobby ministers privately, cadging 15-minute shards of time and making a case, over and over again.
(5) At Oxford, Crawford was a joint founder of the internationalist poetry magazine Verse and "cadged" poems off the likes of Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Seamus Heaney, who enclosed £50 with his poem to help with production costs: "His generosity was not only in language, but also in actual dosh."
(6) While some celebrated the idea that Spain had cadged billions of euros from Europe for nothing, others worried that it had been forced to crawl to Brussels with a begging bowl.
Codger
Definition:
(n.) A miser or mean person.
(n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.
(2) Photograph: John Whale At Christmas my son gave me a large box labelled "The Old Codgers Glastonbury Survival Kit".
(3) Two backbenchers – one an old codger on the way down, the other a newcomer on the way up – are called upon to propose the ‘Humble Address’ when the Commons reconvenes.
(4) "The NHS is not for sale, you grey-haired manky codger!"
(5) At the same time, a repeat of BBC1 old codgers drama New Tricks won the slot, pulling in 4.8 million viewers, a 21% share, enough to beat ITV1's The Bill, which had 4 million and 18%.
(6) Judith McGrath Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands • We old codgers are not complacent of youth (Owen Jones, Opinion , 4 February), merely slightly surprised that its radical aspirations are merely to have a slice of the middle-class lifestyle we enjoy and wish to preserve.