cadge
verb
[ kadʒ ]
• ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled).
• "he cadged fivers off old school friends"
Similar:
scrounge,
beg,
borrow,
bum,
touch someone for,
sponge,
scab,
sorn on someone for,
mooch,
bludge,
cadge
noun
• a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.
Origin:
early 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th century, denoting (in northern English and Scots) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th century.
on the cadge
• looking for an opportunity to obtain something without paying for it.
• "they're all liars and on the cadge"
