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CADGE
Definition of CADGE
verb
To tie, fasten.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CADGE carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive & transitive verb
To beg or get by begging.
To bind; tie.
To bind the edge of.
To stuff or fill: as, to cadge the belly.
Where it comes from
From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (209)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CADGE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CADGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 111 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CADGE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEG - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CADGE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CADGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CADGE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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