5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
verb ask for and get free; be a parasite
verb obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
originFrom Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0