Word: cadger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mania. Nothing like it had ever happened before. There were Pickwick chintzes, Pickwick cigars, Pickwick hats, Pickwick canes with tassels, Pickwick coats; and there were Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, by a hack who impudently called himself Bos; and a Penny Pickwick, not to mention all the stage piracies and adaptations. People named their cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work...
Michale A. Cadger Knoxville, Tenn...
...still even the inimitable rudeness of a Parisian first night. He did it by a bravura demonstration of Beckett's simplest quality, often obscured by reverence for his profundity: namely, that he is another of the great Irish compulsive talkers. There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's. Suddenly a bony hand grips the listener's forearm, the bleary eye comes close, the words begin...
...year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...
...champion drink-cadger of Paris, the Sparrow, after a whole night's expensive buying by his pals, would say: "No, pals, this one's on me," and order up a round of demi-blondes. He almost never ate any food except the hard-boiled eggs he would swipe from bars...