cadge
cadge [cadge cadges cadged cadging] BrE [kædʒ] NAmE [kædʒ] verb transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (from/off sb) (BrE, informal)
to ask sb for food, money, etc. especially because you cannot or do not want to pay for sth yourself
•I managed to cadge some money off my dad.
Derived Word: ↑cadger
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Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th cent., denoting (in northern English and Scots) a travelling dealer, which led to the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent.
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