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cadging, vbl. n. (ˈkædʒɪŋ) [f. cadge v.] † 1. The binding or edging of a garment. Obs.1674 Depos. York Castle (1861) 209 After I toucht the cadgings of her skirts, she stept not many steps after. 2. The practice of a cadger in various senses. (See cadger 2.) Also attrib.1859 Sala Tw. round Clock 387...
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Meantime (film)
Mark is continually scrounging for cash and cadging drinks from his friends, among them Coxy, a crude, impulsive skinhead.
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cadge
▪ I. cadge, n.1 (kædʒ) [App. a variant of cage perh. confused with cadge v. to carry about; but it does not appear what is the source of the earliest quotation, which the later merely follow.] 1. Falconry. (See quots.)1615 Latham Falconry (1633) Wds. of Art expl., Cadge, is taken for that on which F...
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Richard Jury
Withersby, charwoman at the Jack and Hammer, who spends most of her time sleeping by the fire and cadging drinks from the regulars.
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cadge
cadge/kædʒ; kædʒ/ v[I, Ipr, Tn, Tn.pr]~ (sth) (from sb) (sometimes derog 有时作贬义) get or try to get (sth) (from sb) by asking, often unreasonably (向某人)索要或要求(某事物)(常为无缘故的); 占便宜 Could I cadge a lift with you? 我能顺便坐你的汽车吗? He's always cadging meals from his friends. 他总吃朋友的便宜饭.
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Arthur Heywood
Initially schooled at Eton, in 1868, he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he made friends with the local railway people, cadging lifts on the
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tappes
▪ I. tapper1 (ˈtæpə(r)) Forms: 1 tæppere, 2 -are, 6– tapper, Sc. tappar, topper. [OE. tæppere, f. tæppa, tap n.1, tæppian, tap v.1: see -er1.] † 1. a. One who taps casks or draws liquor; a tavern-keeper; = tapster 2. Obs.a 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 202/14 Caupus, i. tabernarius qui uinum uendi...
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The Horse's Mouth
Cadging enough money to buy paints and supplies, he spends much of the novel seeking surfaces, such as walls, to serve as ground for his paintings.
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Traf-O-Data
Gates and Allen had a friend, Paul Wennberg, who, like them, loitered at Control Data Corporation near the University of Washington, cadging open time
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Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford
second-rate hoteliers; greedy seaside impresarios; grubby motorway caterers; miserable museum attendants; surly waiters; and taxi drivers – whom he accused of cadging
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Reuben, Reuben
Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and
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George Graham (monologist)
Washington life, a type of happy-go-lucky vagabond met with in the saloons, mostly near the free lunch counter, dodging the eyes of the bartender and cadging
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The Unnatural Combat
women, and especially her Page; the other, and the more important one, is the figure of Belgarde, a cashiered captain who has to struggle for survival, cadging
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Inside the Whale
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Orwell notes that a novel written about American dead-beats cadging drinks in the Latin Quarter of Paris seems an unlikely candidate to
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Ghanada
he was rarely found engaged in any activity or work other than telling fantastic tales to the boarders of the apartment, sitting in his armchair and cadging
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