cadge
cadge
verb
on the cadge
cadger
noun
语源
verb
- [with obj.](informal)ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled)
(非正式)索要，讨要；乞讨
he cadged fivers off old school friends.
他从老同学那里索要了几张五英镑钞票。
[no obj.]when news of our money gets in the papers people'll be round cadging.
等有关我们钱财的新闻见了报，人们就会前来讨要。
- (Falconry)a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. cage,
(猎鹰)（将戴头罩的鹰带到现场的）软木框
on the cadge
- (informal)looking for an opportunity to obtain something without paying for it
(非正式)寻找免费获得某物的机会
cadger
noun
语源
- early 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) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense 'hawk, peddle', giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent
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