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To cadge is to ask someone you already know for a small thing — a cigarette, a bit of money, a lift, a sandwich — because you have none, or you do not want to pay. It is informal, a little cheeky, and more British than American. You cadge from a friend or a colleague, not from a stranger in the street; that would be closer to begging. It often has a slightly lazy, sponging feel, but between friends it can also be light. The noun is rarer; the verb is the one you will meet. It is not a rude word, but it is not polished either — you would not put it in a formal letter. Younger American English uses it much less; if a student only meets US English, they may hardly see it.
蹭；白要
組成From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. (The rarer noun cadge is likely a changed form of cage.)
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cadgeverb詞源 1/kæd͡ʒ/
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obsoleteTo tie, fasten.
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To beg.
- 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
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slangTo obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?
- They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.
cadgenoun詞源 2/kæd͡ʒ/
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falconryhobbieshuntingA circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
cadgeverb詞源 2/kæd͡ʒ/
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To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cadge.
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dialectalTo carry, as a burden.
- Another Atlas that will cadge a whole world of iniuries without fainting.
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dialectalTo hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。