cadge

Other forms of cadge

past tense

cadged·

present participle

cadging·

third person

cadges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cadge

What does cadge mean?

cadge means "ask for and get free; be a parasite". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cadge?

cadge has 1 syllable: cadge. In IPA it is /ˈkædʒ/.

What is another word for cadge?

Close synonyms include mooch, bum, grub, sponge, schnorr. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cadge a common word?

cadge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.