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Caddish, adj. (popular).—Vulgar; offensively ill-bred. [From Cad (q.v., sense 7) + ISH.]
1869. Shirley Brooks, Sooner or Later, II., p. 31. 'Well I don't care about walking on Sundays. Religious scruples, perhaps.' 'I should think not. But it seems so caddish—like snobs who can go out on no other day.'
1872. Civilian, Aug. 10. There are many sorts of Ministerial insolence at present 'on view' in the House of Commons. Mr. Ayrton's is coarse and caddish, the Attorney-General's contemptuously courteous, and Mr. Lowe's cynically and facetiously insulting.
1874. E. L. Linton, Patricia Kemball, ch. xx. 'However, I have brought you here to reason, not to wrangle,' he continued more quietly; 'and wrangling is caddish.'
Cade, subs. (society).—The Burlington Arcade. [An abbreviated form of 'Arcade.'] Cf., The Zoo for 'the Zoological gardens,' The Proms, for 'the Promenade Concerts,' The Pops. for 'the Monday Popular Concerts,' and The Cri. for the 'Criterion Bar.' Somewhat older examples are The Lane (q.v.) and The House (q.v.).
Cadge, subs. (vulgar).—The profession of cadging or begging.—See verbal sense.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dictionary. The cadge is the game or profession of begging.
1832-53. Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs), Ser. II., 68. He could 'lay on the cadge' better than ony walleteer that e'er cost a pock o'er his shouther.
Verb tr. and intr.—To obtain by begging; to beg. Now applied to vagrants and others who solicit in an artful wheedling manner. [A comparatively modern derivative. Cadger (Scots) a pedlar or carrier, i.e., one who strolls the country with his stock-in-trade in a cadge, i.e., a panier or basket for the carriage of small wares. Cf., 'to beg,' from 'bag.'] Hence said of anyone who lives by sponging on another, or who gets a livelihood without giving a proper quid pro quo. For example, a waiter when hanging about for 'a tip' is said to be cadging or 'on the cadge.' Among intimates To Cadge a dinner or supper is now often used without implied reproach.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum. Cadge the swells, beg of the gentlemen.
1846. Lytton, Lucretia, II., xii. 'I be's good for nothin' now, but to cadge about the streets and steal and filch. [m.]
1848. E. Farmer, Scrap Book (ed. 6), 115. Let each cadge a trifle.
1866. G. A. Sala, Trip to Barbary. ch. xiv. Thumping the tom-tom, and cadging for coppers.
1833. Daily Telegraph, Feb. 8, p. 3, col. 1. 'It's as bad a' most as drawing peoples' teeth to cadge a trifle off them in such winter months as we've had since the Autumn broke.'
English Synonyms. To mump; to pike; to mouch; to stand the pad; to maund; to tramp; to mike.
French Synonyms. Bettander (thieves'); aller à la chasse avec un fusil de toile (popular: literally 'to go hunting with a canvas gun,' an allusion to the necessary wallet or bag); bellander (tramps'; Cf., bettander; possibly some confusion has arisen between these two terms); balauden (tramps'); truquer de la pogne (tramps'); trucher (Old Cant, from truc, any kind of open air small trade or artifice. The word appears in various French, Italian and Spanish dialects, whilst Méril in his Dictionnaire du pâtois Normand allies it with the English 'trick'); tendre la demi-aune (popular:
