Codged vs Cadged - What's the difference?
codged | cadged |
(codge)
To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
* 1990 , Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: his craft and art (page 159)
(cadge)
(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 verbs the difference between codged and cadged
is that codged is past tense of codge while cadged is past tense of cadge.codged
English
Verb
(head)codge
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Verb
(codg)- this it was that branded him as one of the contemporary theatre's journeymen hack 'playwrights', in his own disparaging phrase, ready to turn a hand to anything, and able to codge up a play to order from any materials at hand.
cadged
English
Verb
(head)cadge
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Verb
- "Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?"
- (Halliwell)
- (Wright)