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to ask somebody for food, money, etc. especially because you cannot or do not want to pay for something yourself 乞讨；乞得；索取 - cadge something from/off somebody
I managed to cadge some money off my dad. 我设法从我父亲那里要了一些钱。 🔊🔊 - cadge something
I cadged a lift into the city centre. 我把一部电梯推到了市中心。 - cadge from/off somebody
He cadges off all his friends. 他踢掉了他所有的朋友。
Word Originearly 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) a travelling dealer, which led to the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th cent.- cadge something from/off somebody