Beggar vs. Cadger — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beggar and Cadger
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Beggar
A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.
Cadger
To beg or get by begging.
Beggar
A person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied
Poor little beggars
Cadger
(archaic) A hawker or peddler.
Beggar
Reduce (someone) to poverty
Why should I beggar myself for you?
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Cadger
A beggar.
Beggar
One who solicits alms for a living.
Cadger
A packman or itinerant huckster.
Beggar
An impoverished person; a pauper.
Cadger
One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
Beggar
(Informal) A man or a boy.
Cadger
One who carries hawks on a cadge.
Beggar
To make a beggar of; impoverish.
Cadger
Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Beggar
To exceed the limits, resources, or capabilities of
Beauty that beggars description.
Beggar
A person who begs.
Beggar
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
Beggar
A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
What does that silly beggar think he's doing?
Beggar
(UK) A minced oath for bugger.
Beggar
(transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
Beggar
To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
Beggar
One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
Beggar
One who makes it his business to ask alms.
Beggar
One who is dependent upon others for support; - a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
Beggar
One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
Beggar
To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
Beggar
To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description.
Beggar
A pauper who lives by begging
Beggar
Be beyond the resources of;
This beggars description!
Beggar
Reduce to beggary
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