Beggar vs Cadge - What's the difference?
beggar | cadge |
A person who begs.
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, title= * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
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(Geordie) To beg.
(US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince someone to do something they might not normally do.
To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
As nouns the difference between beggar and cadge
is that beggar is a person who begs while cadge is a circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.As verbs the difference between beggar and cadge
is that beggar is to make a beggar of someone; impoverish while cadge is to beg.beggar
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(wikipedia beggar)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
Synonyms
* (who begs) mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant * (extremely poor person) palliard, pauper, vagabondDerived terms
* beggarly * beggarliness * beggar's-lice * beggar-tick * beggarweed * beggary * beggars can't be choosersSynonyms
* ruinDerived terms
* beggar-my-neighbor * beggar thy neighbor * beggar belief * beggar descriptionAnagrams
* English agent nounscadge
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Verb
- "Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?"
- (Halliwell)
- (Wright)