Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
1 He has the air of a cadger , and no one pays him heed.
2 But she inevitably gained a reputation as something of a beggar or cadger .
3 He's a regular cadger , that's what he is, and that's all he's fit for.
4 Poor Mr Goldsworthy, incurable cadger that he was, was bound to feel the family reverses acutely.
5 I can recall his coming to my father's house when I was but a little cadger .
6 He's neither a loafer nor a cadger .
7 He was pointed out to me as the ' gentleman - cadger , ' because he was so free with his money when 'in luck.'
8 There were twelve or twenty little groups of men in the square, which was lit by a flare of oil suspended over a cadger 's cart.
9 There were twelve or twenty little groups of men in the square, which was lighted by a flare of oil suspended over a cadger 's cart.
10 Prosecutors, witnesses, officials, policemen, detectives, undetected, pressmen, barristers, loafers, clerks, cadgers , jurymen.
11 It's only the cadgers who don't want it who get relief.
12 It is from one of these that "The Cadger 's Ball" is taken.
13 Volumes have been written about the " cadgers , " and countless stories told.
14 Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger ?
15 I hope it will come soon, or the old girl at the inn here will think we're cadgers .
16 "And would you mind telling us what Cadger had to tell, Chief?"
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