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Answer for the clue "Sponger or beggar ", 6 letters:
cadger

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Word definitions for cadger in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A hawker or peddler. 2 (context sometimes Geordie English) A beggar.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) [syn: moocher , scrounger ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadger \Cadg"er\, n. [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf. Cage .] (Hawking) One who carries hawks on a cadge.

Usage examples of cadger.

Like a bird on the wing, or a stone from a sling, Flew Cadger, first over the double.

Scarcely a soul was about--only a dripping labourer at a gate, and a cadger with pack-horses struggling towards the next change-house.

I passed him on the road yestereen mounted like a cadger and groaning like an auld wife.

Poor Mr Goldsworthy, incurable cadger that he was, was bound to feel the family reverses acutely.

It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.

Prosecutors, witnesses, officials, policemen, detectives, undetected, pressmen, barristers, loafers, clerks, cadgers, jurymen.

It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.

Prosecutors, witnesses, officials, policemen, detectives, undetected, pressmen, barristers, loafers, clerks, cadgers, jurymen.

The enormous sails fluttered, beating the thin air for altitude, and then the kitelike creatures wheeled about and soared back in the direction of the waiting cadgers.

He let his gaze wander back to the little group of mounted cadgers, carrying the rest of the birds on the open frameworks strapped to their shoulders, and the dog handlers, struggling with a yapping pack of salukis who looked goggle-eyed and elephant-faced in their long-snouted breathing masks.

The cadgers were busy readying a new cast of falcons, unscrewing the air tubes from the cadge tanks and attaching them to the little streamlined nacelles the birds carried in flight.

Most were just pals--girl talk acquaintances, fellow cocktail lounge cadgers and aspiring actresses heading nowhere.