CADGERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæd͡ʒɚ/

名詞

cadger (plural cadgers)

1. (archaic) A hawker or peddler.
   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:

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

2. (sometimes Geordie) 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

関連する語

• cadge
• codger

Further reading

• Cadger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “CADGER”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Michael Quinion (1996–2026), “Cadge”, in World Wide Words.

アナグラム

• graced