to cadge
1
9.8
- verb
- /kædʒ/
- Informal
:
pedir
- He always tries to cadge a free lunch when we go out to eat.
- cadge drinks
- cadge a cigarette
- cadge money
Examples
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Trying to cadge drinks and lure men home.
Fiction book (1998) -
Maybe she should have cadged another wool blanket; her bedspread wasn't very heavy, and Tina always wanted the windows open at night.
Fiction book (1991) -
We'll cadge a drink off him.
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I was too disappointed to go to the highway and cadge a lift.
Fiction book (1995) -
Now, he can cadge cigarettes and food from you without guilt.
Fiction book (1998) -
They'd come in to cadge a drink or a meal off a sister.
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Let's get back to Fort, and I'll cadge a replacement from the Weyrlingmaster.
Fiction book (1991) -
Most of the time when I came in, he was flirting with a nurse, playing the pitiful invalid to cadge a cigarette or a smile.
Fiction book (1992) -
She managed to cadge some spare change from her friends.
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It's not polite to cadge things without offering something in return.
Synonyms
48
6.8
To ask people for something, often in a formal or persistent way
12
8.5
To ask others for food, money, or help and not pay for it
4
7.0
To get things by asking others without giving anything in return
2
7.9
To get money, food, or help from others while giving nothing back
1
7.5
To get something free by asking someone
1
8.5
To ask for and take food or money from others without paying
To get things by asking people again and again, often without paying
To get things like food or rides by asking others and not paying
Antonyms
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cadge probably comes from an old word for people who carried packs and asked for help, and over time it came to mean 'to get something by asking, usually without paying'.