(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.
Madge
Definition:
(n.) The barn owl.
(n.) The magpie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The linear (first-order) kernels of wild type, and of single and double mutants affected in genes madA to madG were determined previously with Gaussian white noise test stimuli, and were used to investigate the interactions among the products of these genes (R.C.
(2) But even if she feels that those particular days are behind her, as another member of the generation that grew up with Madge as the example of everything we wanted to be (and our parents didn't), I feel quite disappointed that she doesn't feel inclined to throw her substantial clout behind such a cause.
(3) Paglia accuses Gaga of stealing from Madonna, but Madge pilfered sounds and imagery from everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Daft Punk .
(4) The madH gene product was found to interact with those of madC and madG.
(5) Half of firewood supplier Keith Madge's stock is underwater.
(6) Britain’s staycationers can expect temperatures in the high teens or low 20s this weekend, said Graham Madge, spokesman for the Met Office.
(7) The white-noise method of system identification has been applied to the transient light-growth response of a set of seven mutants of Phycomyces with abnormal phototropism, affected in genes madA to madG.
(8) A new gene, tentatively designated madG, was segregated from a cross involving that strain.
(9) The light-growth response of Phycomyces has been studied with Gaussian white-noise test stimuli for a set of 21 double mutants affected in all pairwise combinations of genes madA to madG; these genes are associated with phototropism, the light-growth response, and other behaviors.
(10) Specifically, we have investigated interactions of the madH ("hypertropic") gene product with the madC ("night blind") and madG ("stiff") gene products.
(11) What about the tantric sex with Trudie, the networking events they hold in their Tuscan villa for spiritual gurus and creative thinkers, the biodynamic vineyards and the fact they were responsible for introducing Madonna to Guy Ritchie at one of their glitzy celebrity parties and, by extension, for subjecting us to all those photographs of Madge in tweed caps and tracksuits?
(12) The second of four children of Madge (nee Hutley) and Jack, a Methodist minister with conservative theological views, Hull was born in Corryong in the state of Victoria, Australia.
(13) For most it’s going to be fairly bright and clear,” Madge said.
(14) The kernels for C110 (madE), C316 (madF), and C307 (madG) have a shallow and extended negative phase.
(15) "This is a very worrying situation to have at this time of year," said Grahame Madge, an RSPB official.
(16) Founded that year by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson , the poet and journalist Charles Madge and the surrealist painter and film-maker Humphrey Jennings , Mass Observation's aim was to study the ordinary lives of ordinary people in order to counteract the stereotypes that held sway in the British media of the time.
(17) Instead, its spokesman Grahame Madge accepts removing the currently small population is prudent.
(18) These so-called "stiff" mutants are affected in four genes (madD to madG).