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CADGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cadger mean? 

CADGER (noun)
  The noun CADGER has 1 sense:

1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)play

  Familiarity information: CADGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CADGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger

Hypernyms ("cadger" is a kind of...):

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cadger"):

schnorrer; shnorrer ((Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others)

Derivation:

cadge (obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling)

cadge (ask for and get free; be a parasite)


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