Words: cadge, cadger, codger [AHED]

cadge
INTRANSITIVE & TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: cadged, cadg·ing, cadg·es
To beg or get by begging.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps back-formation from obsolete cadger, peddler, from Middle English cadgear.
OTHER FORMS: cadger —NOUN

SYNONYMS: cadge, beg, bum, mooch, panhandle These verbs mean to ask for or obtain by charity: cadged a meal; begging for change; bum a ride; mooching food; homeless people forced to panhandle.
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codger
NOUN: Informal A somewhat eccentric man, especially an old one.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps alteration of obsolete cadger, peddler. See cadge.
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Cadger.

One who carries butter, eggs, and poultry to market; a packman or huckster. From cadge (to carry). Hence the frame on which hawks were carried was called "a cadge," and the man who carried it, a "cadger." A man of low degree.
"Every cadger thinks himself as good as an earl."—McDonald: Malcolm, part ix, chap. xlv. p. 183.