CADGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cadge mean? 

• CADGE (verb)
  The verb CADGE has 2 senses:

1. ask for and get free; be a parasite

2. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

  Familiarity information: CADGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CADGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cadge    ... he / she / it cadges   
Past simple: cadged   
Past participle: cadged   
-ing form: cadging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for and get free; be a parasite

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bum; cadge; grub; mooch; sponge

Hypernyms (to "cadge" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cadge"):

freeload (live off somebody's generosity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cadger (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cadge; schnorr; scrounge; shnorr

Context example:

he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends

Hypernyms (to "cadge" is one way to...):

beg (ask to obtain free)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

cadger (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))