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BNC: 35131 COCA: 35671

cadge

verb
/kædʒ/
/kædʒ/
[transitive, intransitive] (British English, informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they cadge
/kædʒ/
/kædʒ/
he / she / it cadges
/ˈkædʒɪz/
/ˈkædʒɪz/
past simple cadged
/kædʒd/
/kædʒd/
past participle cadged
/kædʒd/
/kædʒd/
-ing form cadging
/ˈkædʒɪŋ/
/ˈkædʒɪŋ/
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  1. to ask somebody for food, money, etc. especially because you cannot or do not want to pay for something yourself乞讨;乞得;索取
    • cadge something from/off somebody I managed to cadge some money off my dad.我设法从我父亲那里要了一些钱。
    • cadge something I cadged a lift into the city centre.我请求搭车去市中心。
    • cadge from/off somebody He cadges off all his friends.他向所有的朋友乞讨。
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th cent., denoting (in northern English and Scots) a travelling dealer, which led to the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent.
BNC: 35131 COCA: 35671
BNC: 35131 COCA: 35671

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