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English
Etymology
From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
cadger (plural cadgers)
- (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
- (sometimes Geordie) A beggar.
1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field:A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here
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Further reading
Cadger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Frank Graham, editor (1987), “CADGER”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- Michael Quinion (1996–2025) “Cadge”, in World Wide Words.
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