cadge vs scrounge what difference
what is difference between cadge and scrounge
English
Etymology
Possibly a corruption of cage, from Old French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kædʒ/
- Rhymes: -ædʒ
Noun
cadge (plural cadges)
- (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Translations
Verb
cadge (third-person singular simple present cadges, present participle cadging or cadgin, simple past and past participle cadged)
- (Tyneside) To beg.
- (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- Synonyms: scrounge, bum; see also Thesaurus:scrounge
- 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 2001, Part One, Chapter 2,
- They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.
- 1960, Lionel Bart, “Food, Glorious Food,” song from the musical Oliver!
- There’s not a crust, not a crumb can we find,
- can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge […]
- To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
- 1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency
- Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day
- 1839, Glasgow Society, Report for Repressing Juvenile Delinquency
Translations
Derived terms
- cadger
- codger
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- Michael Quinion (15 January 2005), “Cadge”, in World Wide Words.
Anagrams
- CAGED, caged
English
Etymology
1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge (“to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer”) (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe (“to pry about”); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge (“push, jostle”) (1755, also Cockney slang for “a crowd”), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɹaʊndʒ/
- Rhymes: -aʊndʒ
Verb
scrounge (third-person singular simple present scrounges, present participle scrounging, simple past and past participle scrounged)
- To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
- Now you don’t seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
- To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
- As long as he’s got someone who’ll let him scrounge off them, he’ll never settle down and get a full-time job.
Synonyms
- (obtain from another): blag, cadge (UK), leech, sponge, wheedle
Derived terms
- scrounger
Translations
Noun
scrounge (plural scrounges)
- Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
Translations
See also
- scringe
- scrooge
- scrouge
- scrunge
Anagrams
- congrues