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Cadge vs Mendicant - What's the difference?

cadge | mendicant |

As nouns the difference between cadge and mendicant

is that cadge is a circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale while mendicant is a pauper who lives by begging.

As a verb cadge

is to beg.

As an adjective mendicant is

depending on alms for a living.

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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    Anagrams

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    mendicant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Depending on alms for a living.
  • Of or pertaining to a beggar.
  • Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pauper who lives by begging.
  • A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.