Word of the Day：August 30, 2020
cadge
乞讨；索取
verb | KAJ
Definition
: beg, sponge
乞讨，索取
Examples
'Reiner had his car and was driving to Manhattan to drop the book off to his editor. Wouk cadged a ride in, and Reiner took him up on his polite offer to read it.' — Frank Lovece, Newsday (Long Island, New York), 30 June 2020
Reiner开车去曼哈顿把书交给他的编辑。Wuuk搭车进去，Reiner恳请他看了下他写的书。'
'A friend ordered the Burrito Grande, easily the biggest burrito I’ve ever seen. I cadged a bite, and the flavors were delicate, but tasty, complemented by the creamy cheese sauce on top.' — Leslye Gilchrist, The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, 27 Sept. 2019
“我的朋友点了墨西哥玉米煎饼，这绝对是我见过的最大的玉米煎饼。我咬了一口，觉得口感很细腻丝滑，很美味，上面还有奶油芝士酱。”
Did You Know?
As long ago as the 1400s, peddlers traveled the British countryside, each with a packhorse or a horse and cart—first carrying produce from rural farms to town markets, then returning with small wares to sell to country folk. The Middle English name for such traders was cadgear; Scottish dialects rendered the term as cadger. Etymologists are pretty sure the verb cadge was created as a back-formation of cadger (which is to say, it was formed by removal of the '-er' suffix). At its most general, cadger meant 'carrier,' and the verb cadge meant 'to carry.' More specifically, the verb meant to go about as a cadger or peddler. By the 1800s, it was used when someone who posed as a peddler turned out to be more of a beggar, from which arose our present-day use.
早在1400年前，商贩们「peddlers」就用驮马或马车徘徊于英国的乡村，先是将农产品从农村农场运到城镇市场，然后再带些小商品返回乡村去。这些商人的中间名字都是 cadgear；在苏格兰方言将该词称为 cadger。词源学家非常肯定该动词 cadge 是 cadger 以逆向构词的方法创造来的（简单讲它就是通过去除“ -er”的后缀而形成的）。最普遍的用法，cadger的意思是“carrier「搬运人」”，而动词 cadge 的意思是“to carry「搬运」”。更具体些就是该动词被意为“ cadger「乞丐；叫卖小贩」” 或“ peddler「商贩」”。到了1800年左右，这个词被用来形容装扮成商贩的人实际上更像是乞丐「beggar」，而我们今天的用法就是从这个词演变而来的。
Name That Synonym
What synonym of cadge begins with 'm' and also means 'to move slowly or apathetically'?
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