cadge
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cadge/kaʤ/
▶verb informal, chiefly Brit. ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled). ▶noun Falconry a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.
– phrases
on the cadge informal seeking to obtain something without paying for it.
on the cadge informal seeking to obtain something without paying for it.
– derivatives
cadger noun.
cadger noun.
– origin C17 (in the dial. sense ‘carry about’): back-form. from the noun cadger, which denoted an itinerant dealer; the noun is appar. an alt. of cage, perh. confused with the dial. verb cadge ‘carry about’.
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