Cadge

Definitions: Cadge

Cadge

Verb

1. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.

2. Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling.

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	CADGE. To beg. Cadge the swells; beg of the gentlemen. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cadge

Synonyms: bum (v), grub (v), mooch (v), scrounge (v), sponge (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Request	Beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cadge

English words defined with "cadge": Cadged, Cadging. (references)

"Cadge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 65.00% of the time. "Cadge" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	65%	13	97,576
Noun (singular)	20%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	15%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Expressions using "cadge": cadge a lift ♦ cadge smth. from smb.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cadge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvat (bleed, claw back, coax, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, Rob, spoil, squeeze, Winkle, worm, wrest), lyp (ask, beg, mooch, mump, need, plead). (various references)

Arabic		‏نال بالتسول, ‏تسول (beggary, begging, mendicity, panhandle, put out, tramp), ‏تطفل (crash, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping). (various references)

Bulgarian		прося (beg, beseech, crave, solicit). (various references)

Czech		vyžebrat (panhandle). (various references)

French		chercher � se faire payer, se procurer, quémander, faire la mendicité. (various references)

German		schnorren (scrounge), schnorre. (various references)

Greek		περιφερόμενοσ (peripatetic), ζητιανεύω (beg), επαιτώ (beg, mump, panhandle, prog). (various references)

Hebrew		לבקש כ� �"ב�". (various references)

Hungarian		potyázik (to be on the scrounge, to crash the gates, to freeload, to go in on one's face, to sponge, to sponge on), koldul (beg, out on the scran, pan-handle, to beg, to bum, to panhandle, to ponce). (various references)

Indonesian		mengemis (befriend beg), mengedarkan (circulate, emit, issue, pass around). (various references)

Italian		mendicare (beg). (various references)

Manx		shirrey jeirk (beg, begging, panhandle), jannoo cadjerys (hawk, hawking, huckster). (various references)

Pig Latin		adgecay.(various references)

Portuguese		cravar (affix, clout, determine, embed, fasten, insertion, make fast, nail, pitch, plant, secure, staking, stare at, stick), viver de expedientes, mendigar (beg, mump). (various references)

Romanian		cere (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, implore, involve, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue, urge), cerşi (beg, panhandle), obţine cerşind, ţigani. (various references)

Russian		попрошайничать (mooch, mump, panhandle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		isprositi (bum, mump). (various references)

Spanish		vivir de gorra, sacar de gorra (mooch, scrounge), sablear, gorronear, sablear (bum), gorronear (bum, scrounge). (various references)

Swedish		tigga (beg, grub, mooch, panhandle), bomma (bum, grub, Miss, miss the mark). (various references)

Thai		ขอ (ask for, tap for). (various references)

Turkish		el açmak, avuç açmak. (various references)

Ukranian		вимолювати (entreat), випрошувати (solicit), натовкти черево, нажертися, жебрачити (beg), жебрацтво (beggarism, begging, mendicancy, mendicity, panhandle), жити чужим коштом, дармоїдство (parasitism). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cadge": cadged, cadger, cadgers, cadges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cadge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adeg, adge, Caade, Cadagon, cadea, cadeo, cadg, cadle, Cadwgan, Caega, Cagd, cagen, cagg, cago, Caldbec, calge, Cange, categ, cauge, Cdgae, cedfe, cedgs, Cgdgbe, Cidg, codge, Cudjoe, Eadgbe, gadgi, Kaige, kidge, kodge, sadge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: caged.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g"
	-1 letter: aced, aged, cade, cage, dace, egad, gaed.
	-2 letters: ace, age, cad, dag, gad, gae, ged.
	-3 letters: ad, ae, ag, de, ed.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g"
	+1 letter: cadged, cadger, cadges, graced.
	+2 letters: cadgers, changed, charged, clagged, clanged, congaed, cordage, cragged, decagon, decalog, dockage, dogface, encaged, glaceed, glanced, incaged, uncaged.
	+3 letters: acceding, algicide, birdcage, cabbaged, collaged, cordages, decagons, decagram, decalogs, decaying, decigram, defacing, delegacy, disgrace, dockages, dogfaces, grimaced, guidance, magicked, packaged, scragged, ungraced.
	+4 letters: advecting, algaecide, algicides, ascending, birdcages, cadencing, cartridge, cataloged, chagrined, clangored, claughted, cogitated, coheading, coleading, comanaged, congealed, dackering, deaconing, decagrams, decalogue, decamping, decanting, deceasing, decigrams, declaring, declawing, decoupage, demagogic, detaching, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, dodecagon, doughface, educating, exchanged, garlicked, gasconade, genocidal, glaciated, graecized, guidances, logaoedic, pedagogic, rechanged, recharged, redacting, regicidal, scavenged, scraighed, unchanged, uncharged.
	+5 letters: adrenergic, algaecides, androgenic, anecdotage, anglicised, anglicized, anteceding, audiogenic, backlogged, campaigned, cartridges, castigated, catalogued, centigrade, chagrinned, challenged, chargehand, clangoured, coagulated, colligated, conjugated, corrigenda, corrugated, cradlesong, debauching, decalogues, decimating, declaiming, declassing, decorating, decoupaged, decoupages, decreasing, dedicating, defecating, degeneracy, delegacies, descanting, detracting, diagenetic, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, discourage, disgracers, dodecagons, dogcatcher, dogwatches, doughfaces, encouraged, escalading, gallicized, gasconaded, gasconader, gasconades, geodetical, germicidal, grandniece, granduncle, highjacked, ideogramic, lightfaced, logaoedics, mediagenic, medicating, mischarged, outcharged, paedogenic, pedagogics, radiogenic, reacceding, repackaged, scrimmaged, scrummaged, surcharged.
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