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Canny vs Cadge - What's the difference?

canny | cadge |

As an adjective canny

is careful, prudent, cautious.

As a noun cadge is

(falconry) a circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

As a verb cadge is

(geordie) to beg.

canny

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Careful, prudent, cautious.
    • (Ramsay)
  • Knowing, shrewd, astute.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • Frugal, thrifty.
  • (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
    • She's a canny lass hor like!
  • * 1783 , (Robert Burns), "Green Grow the Rashes O", Songs and Ballads
    • But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,
    My arms about my dearie O;
    An' warl'y cares, an' warl'y men,
    Mae a' gae tapsalteerie O!
  • (Northumbria) Very or much.
    • That's a canny big horse, man!

    Derived terms

    * cannily * canniness

    Related terms

    * uncanny (Note: In common modern usage, "canny" and "uncanny" are no longer antonyms.)

    References

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    Anagrams

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    cadge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

    • Verb

  • (Geordie) To beg.
    • "Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?"
  • (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.
  • * (seeCites)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
    • (Wright)

    Derived terms

    * cadger * codger

    Synonyms

    * (obtain from others) scrounge, bum

    References

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