cadger

From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

cadger (plural cadgers)

1. (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

     He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

2. (sometimes Tyneside) A beggar.
   • 1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field

     A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here

• cadge
• codger

• Cadger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Michael Quinion (1996–2023), “Cadge”, in World Wide Words.

• graced